How to include js file in ajax call?

Question

I am calling a ajax method to update a div. It contains links and functions which require java script files. But these methods and functions are not getting called properly as java script files are not getting included through ajax call. For example, i am trying to call a light box function, but it gets redirected to different page and not in light box.

Thanks in advance, Anubhaw Prakash

Answer 1

The Ajax framework in prototype will properly execute the text content of <script> tags, but will not import new script files via <script src="somefile.js"/>. The only solution I came up with is to import all javascript files I need in the head of the page. That way the functions in the imported file are available to the inline javascript code executed in the Ajax response.

Answer 2

I had a similar problem, where I did want to postload some javascript. What I did is separating loading the html-fragment and loading the script into two calls. For loading the script I call the following function (I have JQuery handling the ajax part):

function loadModule(name, callback) {
    $.ajax({type: "POST"
          , url: "/js/" + name
          , dataType: "script"
          , success: callback
    });     
}