jQuery .load() call doesn't execute JavaScript in loaded HTML file

You are loading an entire HTML page into your div, including the html, head and body tags. What happens if you do the load and just have the opening script, closing script, and JavaScript code in the HTML that you load?

Here is the driver page:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
        <title>jQuery Load of Script</title>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            google.load("jquery", "1.3.2");
        </script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function(){
                $("#myButton").click(function() {
                    $("#myDiv").load("trackingCode.html");
                });
             });
         </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <button id="myButton">Click Me</button>
        <div id="myDiv"></div>
    </body>
</html>

Here is the contents of trackingCode.html:

<script type="text/javascript">
    alert("Outside the jQuery ready");
    $(function() {
        alert("Inside the jQuery ready");
    });
 </script>

This works for me in Safari 4.

Update: Added DOCTYPE and html namespace to match the code on my test environment. Tested with Firefox 3.6.13 and example code works.


$("#images").load(location.href+" #images",function(){
    $.getScript("js/productHelper.js"); 
});

A other version of John Pick's solution just before, this works fine for me :

jQuery.ajax({
   ....
   success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
       jQuery(selecteur).html(jqXHR.responseText);
       var reponse = jQuery(jqXHR.responseText);
       var reponseScript = reponse.filter("script");
       jQuery.each(reponseScript, function(idx, val) { eval(val.text); } );
   }
   ...
});

Tags:

Safari

Ajax

Jquery

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