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Asked: 2026-05-23T04:48:35+00:00

I have a PHP script which I want to output some text which I’m

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I have a PHP script which I want to output some text which I’m calling with AJAX to place in a textbox. The text is generated with JavaScript but if I call document.write() then the whole page is refreshed and the text is displayed on its own – not in the textbox.

Here is the backend script:

<?php
  // unrelated stuff
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML>

<html>
  <head>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
    <meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" />
    <!-- JQuery -->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $toolsDirectory; ?>/jquery-1.4.3.min.js"></script>

<?php if ($a = 2) { ?>
    <script src="someScript.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
      <!--
      var a = new A;
      document.write(a.go("<?php echo $testString; ?>"1));
      // -->
    </script>

<?php } ?>
  </head>
  <body>

  </body>
</html>

I’m calling it with $("#output").load("script.php");.

I have also tried $(body).html() with the same result.

So just to sum up – the Javascript works, it outputs the right stuff. If I just echo "hello" in the PHP, it loads it into the textbox as expected – it’s just the Javascript writing that is confusing me.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A document can be in two states — open and closed.

    While loading a document, it is open. Once it has finished loading, it is closed.

    If you reopen a document, it wipes out everything in it.

    If you try to write to a document, and it is in a closed state, then it automatically opens it.

    This is what is happening to you.

    Forget about document.write and use DOM methods to modify the document instead.

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