Hey, I just joined this forum seeking help for some problem that's been annoying me recently.

So basically I have a php page with a div serving as the Ajax container. I have all the needed external javascripts listed in the page such as lightbox2 and sweetTitles. The first time I update the container with Ajax, the tooltips and stuff works just fine. However when I update the Ajax container to another page, the scripts doesn't work anymore.

I've tried having the loaded pages linking to the external javascript files on its own, however that doesn't work as well.

I hope you understand my problem, and help me with it soon.
Thanks!

This;

However when I update the Ajax container to another page,

needs a bit of explanation. Update to another page?

Oops, I mean update the div content with Ajax to another page.

What is probably happening and this is an educated guess, is that when the new content is rendered & parsed by the client browser, the existing methods and variables do not get reinitialised but are being set to nothing.

A test for this would be to reinitialise the javascripts on the return of the ajax call.

Ah yes, I was looking for a way to reload the external javascript inside the new loaded content. I sort of got sweetTitles and lightbox2 working inside the content by reinitializing the script inside the content...like this:

<script>EventCache.flush();pageLoader();initLightbox();</script>

If there is a more efficient way to reload the external scripts other than calling the init functions directly, please tell me.

I rather doubt that there's a more efficient means. If you "just" add javascript inside of <script> tags into a container as part of HTML via Ajax, the javascript is not parsed. For example, Google's Adsense code is not rendered if served via an Ajax script (unless you reparse it through the DOM which would be your equivalent of reinitializing scripts).