How to execute javascript inside a script tag returned by an ajax response

Question

I\'m sending a jquery get request like so:

$.get($(this).attr(\"href\"), $(this).serialize(), null, \"script\");

The response I expect to r

Answer 1

Jose Basilio's answer is okay, but I recommend replacing eval with jQuery's globalEval function...

$.get($(this).attr("href"), $(this).serialize(), function(data) {
   script = $(data).text();
   $.globalEval(script);
});

globalEval is the function that would normally be called when you call an ajax method with a return type of script.

This from the API documentation...

This method behaves differently from using a normal JavaScript eval() in that it's executed within the global context (which is important for loading external scripts dynamically).