Question

I’m using the selectText function from here https://stackoverflow.com/a/987376/784637

However when I called this function immediately after an ajax request on the newly created element:

selectText('some-newly-added-element')

I get the following error in firebug

NS_ERROR_DOM_NOT_OBJECT_ERR: Parameter is not an object
[Break On This Error]   

range.selectNodeContents(text);

Note that I am able to call this function after the ajax request on the same element like so

$('#container').on('click', '#some-newly-added-element', function(){
   selectText('some-newly-added-element');            
});

Is there a way to call this function immediately after the ajax request is done?

Answer 1

Re: Is there a way to call this function immediately after the ajax request is done?

Do you mean after success of the ajax success. or http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

or This should help: Execute function after all ajax .load() requests are finished

Hope this fits the cause :)

Sample

$.ajax({
    url: this.html_url,
    cache: false,
    success: function(html){
        doSomething();
        return true;
    }
});