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

Tacking onto @efreed answer...

I was using .load('mypage.html #theSelectorIwanted') to call content from a page by selector, but that means it does not execute the inline scripts inside.

Instead, I was able to change my markup so that '#theSelectorIwanted'became it's own file and I used

load('theSelectorIwanted.html`, function() {}); 

and it ran the inline scripts just fine.

Not everyone has that option but this was a quick workaround to get where I wanted!