Excellent use of trigger to fire the function once on page load
> Yes, yes, you are correct. I am outputting the javascript from php, > which was interpreting $epc because the inline string was wrapped in > double quotes. I reversed everything (using double quotes internally) > and now the variable isn't getting improperly stripped out. Although not jquery related - I would suggest always using php variables outsite a string and use single quotes. It enables proper syntax highlighting in editors and makes the code easier to read for you and any future developers. 'This is a ' . $value . ' with php ' . $variables " . in it' is far easier to spot in a 1000 line php file than "This is a $value with php $variables in it" and the processing speed difference is negligable