[thelist] Basic JavaScript question
Hassan Schroeder
hassan at webtuitive.com
Sat Oct 18 11:06:04 CDT 2003
john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> Here's what I think I want to do:
>
> <td class="menuTable"><a href="news.jsp" class="menuText" onmouseover="var
> m22 = getElementById('m22'); m22.firstChild.nodeValue='<div
> class='menuText';>Hello</div>';">News</a></td>
No you don't :-) Forget the quoting, you need to rethink this --
m22.firstChild.nodeValue = wha?
"firstChild" is one node, not *three*: you're munging a tag node
('div'), attribute node ('class') and text node `Hello` into one.
Are you intending to change all three? Or just the text part?
--
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