Rails spinoffs - Apr 2006 - RE: innerHTML and scripts not running and evalScriptsin IE

>>Someone suggested using document.write to write a new script element. I 
>>don''t see how this helps because I am not aware of any way to
write to a
>>completed page without overwriting the page. This appears to me to be 
>>simply a page reload.

Wonder why you remember Martin''s name and not mine..lol /joke

Why don''t you start with a simple case and do the following.

Suppose you have a page 1.html that issues the ajax call.
On that page you call contents of 2.html that has a script tag in which it does
document.write(''hello'');

Now in 1.html define the following -

      //overwrite browsers default document.write
      //to prevent new output stream to be opened
      document.write = function(text){
		  	myVariable = text;
		  };

So, when content from 2.html will come that has document.write() it will go into
myVariable and you can manipulate as you like.

Hope this helps!

Remember my name :)
-Mandy.