jQuery .load from another page that contains Javascript

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Published on 2010-06-11T15:37:22Z Indexed on 2010/06/11 17:12 UTC
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I've been using jQuery .load() to load content into a div. The content being .loaded occasionally has a document.ready() function which is called, and works, correctly (i.e. the ready() function is called). However, when I use an element ID in the .load(), such as: .load ("test.php #content"), the Javascript is no longer executed even if I put the script tag inside of the element that is being loaded. Does anyone have a solution to this other than to not use the element ID in the .load()? Thanks in advance.

Here is the dynamic content (loadDialogTest.php):

    <div id="test">
        <div>
         Hello, World!
        </div>


        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready (function () {
                alert ("ready");
            });
        </script>
    </div>

and here is the page (where the element ID is NOT specified) that loads it (shortened as much as possible while maintaining the form:

    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready (function () {
                $("#openDialog").click (function () {
                    $("<div></div>")
                        .load ("loadDialogTest.php")
                        .appendTo ($("#containingDiv"))
                        .dialog ({
                        autoOpen: 'false',
                        title: 'Test This!',
                        close: function () {
                            $(this).dialog ('destroy').remove ();
                        }
                    });
                });
            });
        </script>
    </head>

    <body>
        <a href="#" id="openDialog">Open it</a>

        <div id="containingDiv">
        </div>
    </body>

If I put #test after the .php file as the div to load, the jQuery ready() function is no longer called.

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