I should also mention that if I change showComments() to: function showComments(id) { $('#leftColumnContents').load("/ajax/getComments/" + id + "/"); }
and put the following code in with the comment content <script type="text/javascript"> $('#commentForm').ajaxForm(function() { alert('hello'); showComments(212); }); </script> The /ajax/leaveComment/212/ call just stalls with "loading ..." in firebug. I do get the alert box, so I know the code is being hit. Strange.