Yes, the *live *function should do it. In case that still won't work for you, just work up the vine and install the plugin *livequery *instead, which is where live came from.
John On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:41 PM, jpcozart <jeremy.coz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Check out the live function. It can solve this problem. > > http://docs.jquery.com/Events/live > > On Dec 5, 2:38 am, mysterious79 <gray8...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This probably isn't a jquery question precisely, but jquery is being > > used as my method for making ajax requests. > > > > I'm running into a recurring problem where functions declared on the > > initial page load aren't manipulating content loaded later via ajax. > > For example, when the page loads I may have two ".button" elements but > > then I pull in three more via ajax. A function that affects > > that .button class will work on the original elements but not the ones > > added via ajax. > > > > Here is a very basic but functional example of this: > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > <script type="text/javascript"> > > $(function() { > > $('p').click(function() { > > $.ajax({ > > url : 'testing.html', > > type: 'get', > > success : function(data) { > > $('.container').append(data); > > } > > }); > > });}); > > > > </script> > > > > <div class="container"> > > <p>Hello</p> > > </div> > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > In this example, a click of any p tag should append the content from > > testing.html onto the doc. testing.html is a fragment that has a > > duplicate p tag. Well, I want every new p tag to have the same > > behavior as the original one. How do I do that? I've found that > > putting that writing that function into the fragment can solve the > > problem but this isn't the sort of solution I'm looking for. > > Sometimes, redeclaring the function in the success function will work > > as well, but this is inelegant as I'd like any function declared in > > the site js file to be available. > > > > What is a good method for getting around this sort of trouble? > > > > Thanks >
