He's using Document Ready - that's not the issue. To quote Jake from another thread:
"See this http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/3143. Long story short, jQuery only supports $(html) or $(xmlObject)." --John On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Rene Veerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.learningjquery.com/2006/09/introducing-document-ready > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Jim Buzbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I've got some jQuery code that seems to work fine in Safari and >> Firefox both under OSX and Windows. But I've been beating my head >> against the wall trying to get the same code running under IE7. I >> must be missing something :-( I'm a novice at javascript and jQuery. >> The following is a much abbreviated and simplified version. Under IE, >> the alert function in the loop below comes up with "Color: " each time >> as if the "find" seems to be returning null. Does anyone have a >> suggestion? >> >> The same code can be found online at: >> >> http://batbox.org/bh.html >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jim Buzbee >> >> ... >> >> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.2.6.min.js"></script> >> <script type="text/javascript"> >> >> jQuery(function() >> { >> var xml = jQuery( '<span> <item><color>White</color></item>' + >> ' <item><color>Black</ >> color></item>' + >> '</span>' ); >> >> $(xml).find("item").each(function() >> { >> alert('Color: ' + $(this).find("color").text() ); >> }); >> }); >> >> </script> >> >> ... >> >> >> > >