jQuery delegate is not working?

I am trying to use delegate to call a function, when a specific set of links get click. I have already used it before in some other page. It was worked there. But, this time i even not able to find, where the problem is.

My links were dynamically generated, they looks like

<a class="thumbLink" href="#" id="My HomeTown-1"><smal开发者_JAVA技巧l>My HomeTown</small></a>

And the jQuery delegate function is,

$(document).ready(function(){
$("#albumHolder").delegate('a.thumbLink', 'click', this.loadAlbum);//albumHolder is div ID that holds all the <a> elements

this.loadAlbum = function(){
    var id = this.id;
    var number = id.lastIndexOf("-");
    var alubmName = id.subString(0, number);
    alert(albumName);
}
});

Update:

I tried both versions, But i am not able to make it work!

$("#albumHolder").delegate('a.thumbLink', 'click', function loadAlbum(){
    var id = this.id;
    var number = id.lastIndexOf("-");
    var alubmName = id.subString(0, number);
    alert(albumName);
});



   this.loadAlbum(){
    var id = this.id;
    var number = id.lastIndexOf("-");
    var alubmName = id.subString(0, number);
    alert(albumName);
}
$("#albumHolder").delegate('a.thumbLink', 'click', this.loadAlbum);

The above code is in $(document).ready(function(){});. Is that correct?? i also tried by putting them in a separate js file. I cannot make it work.

Any idea about my problem!!!

If that's the order of your actual code, you're trying to pass the function expression before it has been initialized.

Reverse them and it should work:

this.loadAlbum = function(){
    var id = this.id;
    var number = id.lastIndexOf("-");
    var alubmName = id.subString(0, number);
    alert(albumName);
}
$("#albumHolder").delegate('a.thumbLink', 'click', this.loadAlbum);

You use a function expression before defining it. This doesn't work. Either use a regular function declaration (function loadAlbum() { /* ... */ }) or define this.loadAlbum (this.loadAlbum = function() { /* ... */ }) before using it in your delegate() call.