[End User]

It's a well-known issue: if you make an AJAX call and the returned HTML contains javascript, the javascript in the returned HTML won't run or work because it isn't reparsed into the page.

I've looked at numerous pages on the web related to solving this issue, but none of them are clear to me (or clear enough for me to understand, at least).

Currently I'm building an application that makes an AJAX call, and part of the returned code contains some javascript. Unfortunately the returning HTML it *has* to contain this javascript, there isn't any way around it that I can see.

Can anyone show me a clear example of how to overcome or solve this issue?

[wirehopper]

My approach has been to embed the javascript in the calling page, or one included with a <script> tag, then add some indicator in the HTML that identifies which javascript to execute.

When the response is received from the server, the HTML is scanned to check for the indicator and the appropriate javascript is executed. An empty anchor tag works well. I've also used the text returned from a background script to determine whether it executed successfully.

[JavaScriptBank]

I encountered the same problem in the past, and I used many solutions but still didn't solve it


Then I use jQuery, all everything are ok with a little code

[carters-site]

Is there anyway you can use document.write to your advantage here? I do not really know if willl work in your situation but I know I wrote out html with javascript inside it dynamically using it. In order for the script process correctly though you need make sure you break apart your "<script>" tags to be like "<scr" + "ipt>" and your "</script>" to be "</scr" + "ipt>". you can do this using a replace method with minmal effort.

I am not sure this will work in your situation just throwing it out there.

[End User]

Originally Posted by carters-site

I am not sure this will work in your situation just throwing it out there.

This isn't really what the issue is about, but thanks anyway. The problem is that AJAX-generated javascript code sent back isn't linked to the DOM or automatically re-parsed and executed.

[carters-site]

Sorry I must have misread your problem.

In my situation where I encountered it dealt with serving ads that can be any fragment of html and or javascript that has to be run on the page when it loads. I do not know which ad I am going to load because it is randomly determined in the so that was what I had to do to make the ad code run into the page.

[wirehopper]

Can you post a snippet of the code? Or PM it?