How can I Observe the contents of an 'a' tag - jquery

Question

I have a blank tag that content is loaded into via an external piece of javascript. I want to observe the and when its content chan

Answer 1

You can try monitoring the .html() of the tag to see if it changes to anything else...

Maybe have a timed function (executing every n-seconds) that monitors the content (.html()) of the element until it changes and then stops monitoring it. Maybe something in the vein of:

var monitor = true;
var doMonitor = function() {
  monitor = $("#theanchor").html() != "the initial value";
  if (monitor)
    setTimeout(doMonitor,500);
};
setTimeout(doMonitor,500);

In theory this should work, but I haven't tested it.