Your .load('drawer.html') call is asynchronous, meaning while it's off fetching the page, your chain keeps right on going. It doesn't find an a#close inside #drawer (since the page hasn't come back/loaded yet). Fortunately, you can provide a callback function to .load() that will be executed as soon as the page comes in. Something like this (untested):
$('#drawer').load('drawer.html', function() { var drawer = $(this); $('a#close', drawer).click(function() { drawer.hide(); }); }); - Richard On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:33 PM, RayBaker <raymondbake...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I can't seem to get this snippet I loaded with .load to go away once > loaded. Any ideas? > > > Here's the function > $('a.drawer').click(function() { > $('#drawer').show(); > $('#drawer').load('drawer.html').find('a#close').click(function(){ > $('#drawer').hide(); > }); > }); > > > Drawer.html has an anchor with an ID of "close". > > Its nested in a div called #outter. > > <div id="outter"><a id="close"><img src="images/close.gif" width="55" > height="17" border="0" /></a></div> >