Rick - the load method is asynchronous, so you have to get the html from #favoritesHold in a callback from the load method. Otherwise, the subsequent code after the load method is running before the html is returned from the server.
-- Josh -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Rick Faircloth Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:02 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is this sytax legitimate? Hmmm...tried that and couldn't get it to work...something strange is going on. Tried this sequence, too: var favoritesHTML = '../components/userFavoritesHTML.cfm?' + new Date().getTime(); $('#noFavorites:visible').hide(); $('#favoritesHold').load(favoritesHTML); var newHTML = $('#favoritesHold').html(); $('.menu1').append(newHTML); I can see the HTML on the screen in the #favoritesHold in the second line of code above, but nothing gets appended to .menu1. Any other suggestions? Rick -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ak732 Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:22 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is this sytax legitimate? Actually, this would be better I think: $(".menu1").append($("<div/>").load(favoritesHTML).html()); The idea being to consruct a temp placeholder for your loaded html that goes away after. On Aug 19, 4:18 pm, ak732 <ask...@gmail.com> wrote: > The syntax looks okay. > > Are you using Firebug to verify that #favorites (which appears to be a > mysterious <li> somewhere) is actually being loaded as you expect? > Does it actually contain the <li> tags you show above? > > Also, you might want to eliminate #favorites altogether by taking a > page from jQuery's load implmentation like this: > > $("<div/>").load(favoritesHTML).html().appendTo(".menu1");
