Jquery :: DOM After Load When The Callback Function Was Executed

I have an unordered list with each LI having an onclick event of "changeTabContent". When the page loads, I trigger the active LI's click. On a click, first thing I do is remove the previous results, which are a UL living under the "li.active" element. Next, I move the "active" class to the LI that was pushed and off the old one. Next, I add a loading animation to the screen. Next I append a new UL to the new "li.active" and use the load() method to insert a bunch of LI's from a different page. onSuccess, I remove the loading animation. [note 1] Next, you'll see a hack I added, more on that in a minute... Last two steps are to add a "more" link to the bottom of the returned li's, if a link was passed into the function, and finally I remove a handful of LI's (excluding more link) so there are only "x" on the screen.

My #1 problem is that the more link is not showing up at times, and the cleanList function is not removing LI's. I believe the problem is that with the load being async, sometimes those last two steps are being hit, but there is no LI's in the DOM yet. You can see I tried to run a hack so the while loop will execute when there is no "ul" yet. [note 1] - I tried to add the final two steps into the load() callback, but the LI's were NEVER loaded in the DOM when the callback function was executed.

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