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if you get the response text and put it somewhere in a page in a the onComplete function, the next line might call a function in there that calls the rest. It won't execute automatically. also you can put the response in a document.createElement("IFRAME").src, than it actually will execute. Huub On 8/13/07, starmonkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm using jQuery's load() function in order to pull content from the > server and stick it into a div. > > This content has both html + javascript inside it, and I need to get > the javascript actually evaluated for IE6+7. > > Firefox handles javascript fine for both inline + externally > referenced libraries, eg: > > <script language="javascript" src="/path/to/lib.js" type="text/ > javascript"></script> > > and > > <script language="javascript"> > alert('some js code running here!'); > </script> > > The above does not work with both IE6 + IE7. > > If you look at mootools' api, they include a "evalScripts" flag to > eval/execute javascript inside the returned content: > > http://docs.mootools.net/Remote/Ajax.js > > They make use of IE's "execScript" function in order to do this. > Sample code: > > onComplete: > ----- > scripts = (this.options.evalScripts) ? '' : null; > this.response.text = this.response.text.replace(/<script[^>]*>([\s > \S]*?)<\/script>/gi, function(){ > if (scripts !== null) scripts += arguments[1] + '\n'; > return ''; > }); > > if (scripts) (window.execScript) ? window.execScript(scripts) : > window.setTimeout(scripts, 0); > ----- > > Another blog entry about execScript: > > http://ajaxian.com/archives/evaling-with-ies-windowexecscript > > Questions: > * Is there a way to handle this neatly with jQuery? > * Is an "evalScripts" flag planned for jQuery's load() function? > * Is there a better way to handle content containing javascript? > > thanks in advance, > SM > >