Question

$('body').load(
  // Handler for .load() called.
  amazingfunction("#chairleg");
);

function amazingfunction(str){
    // do ajax stuff with the variable
    // this bit works fine. I just want to auto load the element into this.
}

Can someone please help? I am trying to take the html content of #chairleg immediately the page loads, and call the function ‘amazingfunction’ straightaway whilst passing the variable.

I seem to be getting nowhere. I also tried it with the following instead of line 3, but no luck still:

$("#chairleg").html;

Strangely, I also seem to be getting errors when i have a semi colon like ‘ ; ‘ at the end of line 3. any ideas about these two issues? I guess they are linked and issue 2 will be solved once issue 1 is solved?

Answer 1

Try this:

$(function () {
   amazingfunction($("#chairleg").html());
});

function amazingfunction(htm){
    //you have the html of chairleg in htm variable
    // do ajax stuff with the variable
    // this bit works fine. i just want to auto load the element into this.
}