I'm setting default values for a text area on page load. This ivolves loading a remote xml file. Should I be using the document.read() function here. Because the "resultdiv" doesn't seem to finish load names.xml. So none of the manipulations can happen. ----
function init() { var resultdiv = $("<div id='res' />"); resultdiv.load("names.xml"); var text = $(resultdiv).html()+"\n"; $("#source").val(text); } <body onload"init()" > <p>Source</p> <textarea id="source" rows="10" cols="30"> </textarea> </body>