Pulling in HTML

[NokX]

i'm using AJAX to pull in HTML from an external HTML document (cause i don't wanna use iframes). thing is, the javascript within the <script> tags doesn't execute when pulled in.

i would like for the javascript to execute when the HTML is brought into the page.

even a simple...

<script type="text/javascript">
alert("test");
</script>

...doesn't work. and i've tried window.onload = function() {}, too.

[kyberfabrikken]

That won't work. Why don't you use iframes?

[NokX]

actually - it can be done... using AJAX i can do a responseXML and grab the <script> tag and run an eval() on it. i'm pulling the responseText but i'm having problems right now getting the <script> tag using req.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("script")[0].firstChild.data;

[kyberfabrikken]

responseXML is only available, if the response is content-type xml

[Raffles]

But if you override the mime type you can use it.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...MimeType.28.29

[felgall]

Why are you using Ajax or iframes for loading additional JavaScript when you can just add the script tag to the page and pull the script in automatically. Pulling in JavaScript by adding a script tag to the page is one of the four ways of updating a web page from the server without reloading the page (ajax, iframes, and images that run server side code being the other three)

[NokX]

Why are you using Ajax or iframes for loading additional JavaScript when you can just add the script tag to the page and pull the script in automatically. Pulling in JavaScript by adding a script tag to the page is one of the four ways of updating a web page from the server without reloading the page (ajax, iframes, and images that run server side code being the other three)

i'm using ajax because i have a <div> that i'm populating with various html files on the fly - yet each html file needs it's own javascript to run when it's loaded. i don't wanna use iframes cause i think they're a pain to mess with it and loading into a div i can make it conform to the page much easier.

i've had zero problems with bringing in the html files or styling...just having the html document's javascript execute.

[NokX]

But if you override the mime type you can use it.

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs...MimeType.28.29

that helped me out a ton, man...thanks! here's what i did, basically...

in the ajax function

pagereq.onreadystatechange = loadpage;
        pagereq.open("GET", url, false);
        pagereq.overrideMimeType("text/xml");
        pagereq.send("");

within my loadpage function

if (pagereq.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("script").length) {
                alert(pagereq.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("script").item(0).innerHTML);
            }

although i'm obviously not going to use alert() for the final - i just wanted to make sure that the <script> text was being passed along.