Hello list,
Is there a way I can refresh the jQuery object's DOM on command so
that it can acknowledge content that's been brought in after the
initial DOM ready event?
Ideally, I'd find something that looked a bit like this:
$.get('wad_of_unknown_content.php', someVariableParameters,
$.reloadPageDOM())
I've run into the situation where a load of AJAXed content is
essentially dead to my jQuery object. I'm surprised at the variety of
ways people have dealt with highly specific symptoms of the problem:
there are plugins like livequery, which looks to me like an overhead-
intensive method for modifying event bindings; then there are a
variety of ways of writing functions your dynamic content may be
sensitive to into large superfunctions which get called back whenever
said dynamic content is loaded. In particular, everything out there
seems to be concerned exclusively with event binding on objects within
the dynamic content, and the solutions all seem to involve re-writing
specific bindings or the functions calling the dynamic content
themselves. Why not just get jQuery to read over the existing document
as it stands and assimilate that into the jQuery worldview whenever a
batch of new content is introduced? Or have insertion methods that
edit the document in question and the jQuery DOM object at the same
time?
Would be very interested to hear alternatives as to how to deal with
this.
