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You can use a timer to check for a change. Not very efficient, but it will work.

That begs the question: What is loading into the DIV? How did it start? Where did it come from? Perhaps these are more worthy of investigation.

If you force the "source" that is changing the element into changing something that has an onchange event, you can certainly trap that. Perhaps routing an intended DIV change to an INPUT could solve the problem.

Diodeus 2010-05-13 00:33:45

Hmm... starting a timer would be silly because it will be a hack. how does lightbox do it? it does something like this: <script type="text/javascript" src="js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects,builder"></script>

Jason94 2010-05-13 00:39:43

Scripatculous is a well-known library. Prototype, which it is built upon, can add elements to the DOM as well as events. It could be making an AJAX call.

Diodeus 2010-05-13 00:42:17

but what does "?load=effects,builder" do? pass arguments? maybe i can use it to fire up my Init function in my .js file?

Jason94 2010-05-13 00:44:07

It's simply loading the library with options. There is probably another script somewhere that calls the "Effect" object in Scriptaculous, look for it (case sensitive). More info: http://script.aculo.us/

Diodeus 2010-05-13 00:48:14

Answer 2

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you can embed script snippets which execute when they are loaded. This example is from jquery...

<span class="myclass otherclass">span class="myClass"</span>
<script>$(".myclass.otherclass").css("border","13px solid red");</script>

Maybe you need to make your question more clear?

Jacob 2010-05-13 00:39:22

That's a reasonable idea. You'd have to run it after the element it references has loaded in the DOM though.

Diodeus 2010-05-13 00:51:07

i really wanted to be independent of another lib but jquery solves my problem.

Jason94 2010-05-13 01:00:31

While many would not consider this a replacement for body onload, you can make it work.jQuery does solve so many problems though. It reduces the complexity of a problem by three-to five times.

Diodeus 2010-05-13 02:06:52

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