Trouble setting the HTML of a variable in JQuery

Question

What I've done is loaded some HTML from a file and I am attempting to modify some elements within that HTML.

The initialization looks like this:

var id = player_info["ID"];
$("#main_container").append(
    $("<div />").attr({class: "player_container", id: "player_" + id}).css("display", "none")
);

// Add all information to the player container
var player_container = $("#player_" + id);
player_container.load("player_layout.html");

With player_layout.html looking like this:

<div class="player_name">

</div>
<div class="player_chips">
    Chips:
    <br/>
    <span class='bidding'></span>/<span class='chips'></span>
</div>
<div class="player_stats">
    Wins / Losses
    <br/>
    <span class="wins"></span>/<span class="losses"></span>(<span class="total_games"></span>)
    <br/><br/>
    Chips Won / Chips Lost
    <br/>
    <span class="chips_won"></span>/<span class="chips_lost"></span>
</div>
<button class="player_won">Player Has Won</button>

I then want to modify some of the elements, specifically classes. An example of the way I was initially doing this is:

player_container.find(".player_name").text(player_info['username']);

This wasn't working so I then tried to switch find with children and text with html but that didn't seem to work. I then tried this:

$('> .player_name', player_container).html(player_info['username']);

but that also didn't work. I understand that I can use DOM to grab the childNodes and compare the class names but there are a lot of classes that need modifying and I'd also like to know if this is possible in JQuery. Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

You need to use complete callback method of .load()

var player_container = $("#player_" + id);
player_container.load("player_layout.html",  function(){
    player_container.find(".player_name").text(player_info['username']);
});