Can you post a link to a test page that illustrates what you're trying to do and what isn't working? It's pretty hard to tell what might be wrong without seeing things like the HTML that the $.post() returns.
-Mike > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm having trouble using a subsequent selector on an HTML > page returned from $.post, while trying to write a Ubiquity command. > > If I log or display ajdata, as returned from the $.post, it > contains the HTML page, as expected, and shows up as a jQuery > object in Firebug. > > What I want to do is use a jQuery selector to extract a named > textarea within the returned HTML, so I plug in the object as > the context and provide a selector, as below: > > jQuery.post(updateUrl, updateParams, function(ajdata) { > > CmdUtils.log(jQuery("textarea[name=cloudsource]", > ajdata).val()) }, "html"); > > Firebug just gives me "unknown" for the response. If I > remove the slector, and just pass "ajdata" to CmdUtils.log, > then I see a jQuery object in Firebug. > > At first I thought my selector was in error, but even > changing it to obvious things like "body", "div", etc > produced the same "undefined" > in Firebug, so I guess I'm misunderstanding how context works > for jQuery. Any insight would be appreciated. >