Not really; my code is working fine as is. I think the "problems" were 1) I was curious if there was a way to do it via jQuery instead of DOM mutation methods (looks like no) and 2) the documentation for these jQuery methods doesn't specifically mention that this case isn't covered and that the developer should look at DOM events, although that is just perhaps assumed to be default behavior when working with jQuery.

I'm writing to the people who maintain the jQuery documentation now...