Thanks much Brandon! On Sep 14, 11:05 am, "Brandon Aaron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you want to get the event.target.href. You are passing the whole > element which is an A tag. Which its toString() method reports the href > value and is why the ""+event.target works. > > var resultlink = event.target.href; > > -- > Brandon Aaron > > On 9/14/07, skatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > yeah, was weird though ... it worked up to 1.1.3 > > > here is what it was - it was simply a click to a link, grabbing the > > target ... > > > link like this - <a href="http://example.com/" class="partInfo">link</ > > a> > > > if ($(event.target).is('.partInfo')) { > > var resultlink = event.target; > > // then load it > > } > > > On Sep 14, 10:31 am, Stephan Beal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sep 14, 3:22 pm, skatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > $(".dataWin").hide().load(resultlink); > > > > > this works ... > > > > > $(".dataWin").hide().load(""+resultlink+""); > > > > resultlink is aparently a non-String object of some type which is not > > > accepted by load(). Your second line (the one which works) is casting > > > it to a string. But you don't need both sets of quotes - one or the > > > other will do: > > > > $(".dataWin").hide().load(""+resultlink); > > > > Th > > at will also force it to be a string.