I am having trouble figuring out how to use the JQuery delegate function to do what I require. Basically, I need to allow users to add Panels (i.e. divs) to a form dynamically by selecting a button. Then when a user clicks a button within a given Panel, I want to be able to to something to that Panel (like change the color in this example). Unfortunately, it seems that references to the JQuery traversing functions don't work in this instance. Can anybody explain how to achieve this effect? Is there anyway to bind a different delegate to the each panel as its added.

$('.addPanels').delegate('*', 'click', function() {
$(this).parent.css('background-color', 'black');
$('.placeholder').append('Add item');
});

<div class="addPanels">  
    <div class="panel">   
        <a href="#" class="addLink">Add item</a> text</div>  
       <div class="placeholder"/>  
    </div>  
</div>