How about posting what you have? that would give a good basis to start to explain it
To hope to help though, since the Ajax request is made asynchronously, it loses the context of "this" On Oct 8, 10:49 am, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been looking for this quite a bit, today, and haven't quite found > what I'm looking for, so maybe someone can point me in the right > direction. > > I'm performing an AJAX request, and I pass an anonymous function as > the success callback, upon which I will want to do some DOM > modification to the element that triggered the AJAX event. Ordinarily, > $(this) would work fine for doing this, but it seems that $(this) > points instead to something besides a DOM element. > > First, what does $(this) point to when you're inside the AJAX Success > callback. > > Second, what is considered the best practice for accessing the > triggering element after a successful AJAX query? > > Any help is appreciated, > Wayne
