Welcome to the unobtrusive philosophy :
http://simonwillison.net/static/2008/xtech/
This is somewhat big to take in one big gulp but I promise you will greatly
benefit from reading this right now before you try to use jQuery and AJAX in
a messier way and find it hard and not rewarding.
Kind regards.
Michel Belleville
2009/11/23 Rockinelle
> I am jumping into ajax with Jquery and I have what I think is an easy
> question. I have successfully used jquery load to bring an external
> php doc into my page. That page has a form on it where I want to use
> jquery to reload that external page to reload with ajax when the form
> is submitted. What I need to know is where to put the code to act on
> the external form. Do I place the code on the page .load ing the
> external form or do I need to place it on the external form?
>
> I've tried it both ways and I can't get it to work.
> For testing I'm just doing something simple
> $(document).ready(function(){
>$('#submit1').click(function(){
>alert('It works!');
>});
>});
> This code does work when it's located on the external form and I load
> that form explicitly rather than through an ajax call. What am I
> missing?
>
> I guess my question has a greater scope than just this example. Will
> javascript on a main page act on selectors that match those in a div
> that's loaded through ajax? The same question with CSS too.
>
