[thelist] How to abstract this script?

[Tom Dell'Aringa]

--- Matt Warden <mwarden at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes, well that's your problem. You need to make them related.
> I would suggest a DOM approach. Maybe something like this:
>
> <div>
> <input type="text" name="serviceDate" id="serviceDate" /> <a href="error.html"
> onclick="ShowCalendar(document.forms['service'].elements['serviceDate'].value);
> return false;">
> <img src="calendar-icon.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a> <div id="calendar"></div>
> </div>
>
> I would do ShowCalendar(this.parentNode) and then modify ShowCalendar
> to do a passedNode.getElementsByTagName('input'), etc. It would also
> allow you to more easily convert your script in the future to (as
> Chris would say) unobtrusive JavaScript, rather than putting the call
> directly into your markup, regardless of whether JS is on.
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Hmm..that might solve my other problem too. Right now I have them wrapped in an A which allows me
to grab the input in an init function:

var oNodes = oLink.childNodes;
ShowCalendar(oNodes[0].value, oNodes[0]);

It's all working and abstracted now (except for the calendar DIV id, but I'm only using one and
throwing all calendars into it) - but this makes the input box clickable. That's kind of odd -
what if I just want to type in my date? That could be frustrating. I'm also placing the calendar
based on the mouse click location - which puts the calendar on top of the input sometimes, again,
kind of odd.

Anyway - I'm not familiar with passedNode and Google came up empty on that, nor do I see it in
O'Reilly - is that a typo or can your provide a reference?

Thanks

Tom



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