Finally! That appears to have been the problem. (asynchronous method) That explains why the content was appearing in some places of the dom, but not in others and not in the alert.
This has been driving me crazy all day! :oP Thanks, Josh! -----Original Message----- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh Nathanson Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 7:54 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is this sytax legitimate? 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");
