[thelist] Q on dHTML sibling/child

[Hassan Schroeder]

jsWalter wrote:

>     <span onclick="do_menu(this)" id='zz'>
>       <a href="#" Xtarget="display">About</a>
>     </span>
> For some reason, I can't seem to remember how to retrieve an object
> reference to a sibling of a given HTML element.
> 
> Can someone show me the bloody obvious?

var s = document.getElementById("zz").nextSibling :-)

However, it's likely to be a text (white space) node, so you need
to check and if necessary loop until you find the node you want...

HTH,
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