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 could make use of the DOMSubtreeModified event. That event fires at an element when it's contents change.

$('a').bind('DOMSubtreeModified', function() {
    // contents changed   
});

Note: this event does not fire in Opera and older versions of IE (it works in IE9 though).

Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/simevidas/pLvgM/