I posted this almost an hour ago and it is still not showing up in the Google Group... why?
- Jonny On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Jonny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically, I have a JavaScript function (let's call the function > "displayDiv") that ends up writing a <div> to the page. If > "displayDiv" is called within a table cell, the <div> will be added > and displayed in that table cell. Now, what I'm trying to accomplish > is replicating this behaviour with an AJAX function (let's call the > function "callAJAX") that returns HTML containing "displayDiv" and > adding the code to a specific location in the page. I have tried > this, problem is that the JavaScript returned from "callAJAX" was not > executed. > > I then did some research and tried a few things: > > > 1. I tried parsing out the JavaScript (displayDiv) from the > returned HTML (callAJAX) and adding it to the <head> tag, which in > theory, should be executed. This approach did not work for me because > "displayDiv" writes a <div> to the page and from the <head> it would > not know where to write the <div>. > > > > 2. I have tried parsing out the JavaScript (displayDiv) from the > returned HTML (callAJAX) and executing it with EVAL() but this would > not work because the AJAX function would not know where to write the > <div> created within the "displayDiv" function. > > I guess what I'm hoping for is some magical piece of code that would > tell the browser to parse the page again and execute the JavaScript > that was added to the page by the AJAX function. > > ============================ > > I am posting this on behalf of a friend who is to busy today :) If > anyone can tell me if this is even possible, and if so, where to go > next, that would be most excellent! > > Many thanks, > > - Jonny >
