I need to replace the content of a div in my page with the html resultant from an ajax call. The problem is that the html have some necessary scripts in it and it seems that
I had the same problem, but with more issues which I couldn't fix that easily. But I found a solution:
This is my pseudo-source (HTML) that I couldn't change in any way.
<html>
<body>
<div id="identifier1">
<script>foo(123)</script>
</div>
<div id="identifier2">
<script>bar(456)</script>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I used $.get()
to fetch this HTML page.
Now that I have the code as a string, it's time to search in it with jQuery.
My aim was, to isolate the Javascript-Code inside the <script>
-Tag, that belongs to the DIV identifier2
, but not to identifier1
. So what I wanted to get is bar(456)
as a result string.
Due to the reason, that jQuery strips all script-Tags, you cannot search like this anymore:
var dom = $(data); //data is the $.get() - Response as a string
var js = dom.filter('div#identifier2 script').html();
The solution is a simple workaround. In the beginning we will replace all <script>
-Tags with something like <sometag>
:
var code = data.replace(/(<script)(.*?)(<\/script>)/gi, '<sometag$2</sometag>');
var dom = $(code);
var result = dom.find('div#identifier2 sometag').html();
//result = bar(456)
It's a simple hack, but it works!
This is the easiest solution:
var keepScripts;
keepScripts = true;
$.parseHTML(yourHtmlString, keepScripts);
This will keep the script tags in ;)
Edit: I'm tired and not thinking. You can just use the native innerHTML
method instead of .html()
:
$('#feedback-' + idfeedback)[0].innerHTML = x;
Original answer:
My hunch is that the answer you linked doesn't work for you because the included scripts are called with a src
attribute rather than script content between the <script>
and </script>
tags. This might work:
$.ajax({
url: 'example.html',
type: 'GET',
success: function(data) {
var dom = $(data);
dom.filter('script').each(function(){
if(this.src) {
var script = document.createElement('script'), i, attrName, attrValue, attrs = this.attributes;
for(i = 0; i < attrs.length; i++) {
attrName = attrs[i].name;
attrValue = attrs[i].value;
script[attrName] = attrValue;
}
document.body.appendChild(script);
} else {
$.globalEval(this.text || this.textContent || this.innerHTML || '');
}
});
$('#mydiv').html(dom.find('#something').html());
}
});
Note, this has not been tested for anything and may eat babies.
Try
$('#feedback-'+ idfeedback).empty().append(response);
I didn't tested. Not sure if .html()
really strips <script>
but give this a try.
Can you show me the result html structure ?
UPDATE 2010/11/03
You can eliminate <script>
tag from .html()
result with regular expression.
From your first code, after this line.
var x = $(response).find('#feedback-'+ idfeedback).html();
You can do something like this.
x = x.replace(/\n/g, '{n}')
.replace(/<script.*?<\/script>/g, '')
.replace(/{n}/g, '\n');