Running Javascript embedded in div after AJAX call

[Drakkon]

I'm trying to make an AJAX call load a page into that page - and within that page is a embedded Javascript call so that way those function get called after the AJAX loads. However I've had no luck as of yet as it doesn't seem to parse the javascript that is loaded. I can see in firebug the content gets loaded into the div just the javascript does not process. Is it possible to embed content like this?
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Current page:
(div id="content")(/div)
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Javascript:
AJAX.call(alert.php);
AJAX.onstatuschange = function (responseText) {
#('content').innerHTML = responseText;
}
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PHP page (call alert.php)
(script)alert('hello')(/script)

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[skrilla]

I have done this before. I don't know if this would be the "correct" way to do it, but it works.

Try something like this:

Current page:
(div id="content")(/div)
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Javascript:
When you get the response text back... to run the javascript you can use:
eval(responseText);
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PHP page (call alert.php)
echo "alert('hello')";

 

[Drakkon]

so the only way to do it is to have the response be pure javascript? no xml/html?

 

[sourceninja]

I only know how to do it with pure javascript. Although I use jquery for all my ajax stuff.

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

In order to do something like this, you'd need to get the response, then parse the response to get out the scripts. If just plain <script> and </script> are dependably there, can probably just use a pair of splits. If not, you'll need some kind of marker.

Then, you can eval the javascript, or create a new <script> element and append it to the current page.