jQuery .load() call doesn't execute JavaScript in loaded HTML file

Question

This seems to be a problem related to Safari only. I\'ve tried 4 on Mac and 3 on Windows and am still having no luck.

I\'m trying to load an external HTML file and

Answer 1

You are loading an entire HTML page into your div, including the html, head and body tags. What happens if you do the load and just have the opening script, closing script, and JavaScript code in the HTML that you load?

Here is the driver page:

 
    
        
        
        
        
        
    
    
        Click Me
        

    

Here is the contents of trackingCode.html:

This works for me in Safari 4.

Update: Added DOCTYPE and html namespace to match the code on my test environment. Tested with Firefox 3.6.13 and example code works.