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Unsuccessful attempt using "google-code-prettify" with dynamically DOM

Inside head tag I have:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="google-code-prettify/prettify.css">
<script src="google-code-prettify/prettify.js"></script>

Somewhere inside body tag I have:

<div id='code-context'>
    <pre class="prettyprint"><code class="language-js"></code></pre>
</div>

In my main css file I have some pre and code which should override prettify:

#code-context pre, #code-context code {
    font-family: 'Ubuntu Mono', monospace;
    width: 80ch;
    white-space: pre-wrap;
}

Intentionally, I didn't include <body onload="prettyPrint()">. The #code-context is hidden when the page is loaded so it's unnecessary. The code become visible after the user trigger a jQuery function which goes:

$('#code-context').show();
var fileSource = "code-to-display.js";
$('code').load(fileSource);
$('.prettyprinted').removeClass('prettyprinted');
prettyPrint();
console.log('succeded!');

I'm getting the message in the console (which implies that all went OK), but in fact what I get is a border around all the code, and the code itself isn't color-coded.

Help?

Solution

  • Found it!

    I used jQuery's get() instead of load() and it worked, though I don't fully understand why.