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Hyperscript behavior ceases to work after active search

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend, web-dev

Research direction

Start with the form's _="install CheckBoxDataGrid" behavior and the <tbody> replacement described in the issue, then reproduce the active-search swap. Verify that the checkbox click handler still fires and logs clicked checkbox after the replacement; the issue is resolved when the behavior continues working on the new rows.

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Description

I'm using hyperscript 0.9.14. I have a table of data in a form, with the first column in each row being a checkbox. There is a behavior defined in a .hs file and installed on the

tag. Users can filter the contents of the table through an active search feature. This is implemented in HTMX and it swaps the tag out for new HTML based on the results of the search. The issue is that the behavior reacts to events correctly on the page's first load, but ceases to work following a search.

Is there a way to reassert a behavior following a change to a page's DOM?

<form hx-swap="none" _="install CheckBoxDataGrid">
	<table>
		<thead>
			<tr>
				<th>
					My checkbox
				</th>
			</tr>
		</thead>
		<tbody id="key-aur-inf-res"> <!-- active search swaps this out -->
			<tr>
				<td>
					<input type="checkbox" name="key-aur-mod-aauk-id" value="261">
				</td>
			</tr>
		</tbody>
	</table>
</form>

behavior CheckBoxDataGrid
	on click from <input[name="key-aur-mod-aauk-id"] /> in me
		log 'clicked checkbox'
	end
end

I've put a video of this below. On the first page load, the "on click" event handler fires, and button's text on the bottom right corner of the screen changes when checkboxes are selected. However, following an active search the event handler doesn't fire and the text doesn't change.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9be8ebd0-5913-41c2-acc5-cfa7e2f1978c

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