title: Fictitious jQuery persist method
body: <p>Is there a way to have a declaration such as the following persist to all matching elements that are later added to the DOM?</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("a.my-class").replaceWith("&lt;span&gt;Replaced&lt;/span&gt;");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Something along the lines of...</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("a.my-class").persist().replaceWith("&lt;span&gt;Replaced&lt;/span&gt;");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(Persist is a fictitious method, that I hope conveys what I would like to accomplish.)</p>