I met a similar issue, but i can determine it happens only with Firefox (3.0.3). The variable selector seems to be the problem.
I explained the whole thing here:http://jsbin.com/aciwi in short, $("[id='" + variableId + "']").text( variableValue ); won't always work with FF (it works in first steps) but document.getElementById( variableId ).value = variableValue; will always work I can't succes in making my code working with jsbin (i tried several ways to) because the code use ajax with xml and I can't make the relation between them. You can view the jquery code here: http://jsbin.com/aciwi That should load a sample xml here : http://jsbin.com/ebupo But it does not Anyway, i posted the same code here at my own ftp: jquery/html page: http://rotinpain.ifrance.com/tests/test4xml.html xml data source: http://rotinpain.ifrance.com/tests/test4xml.xml Let me know if you see something that i didn't. i'm fairly new to jquery but i think the code is ok.
