Re: OT: [kind of SOLVED] need javascript/DOM help

Mike Wright <mike.wright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:10:59 -0700

Mike Wright wrote:
Bassel Safadi wrote:

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Mike Wright wrote:

Are there any javascript/DOM gurus out there who can tell me why the 
html page below does not behave as expected?

Below is the html being tested.

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE html
  PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head><title>Javascript DOM Experiments</title></head>
<body>
<p   id='m'></p>
<a   id='a'></a>
<script type='text/javascript'><!--//
var d = document;
var m = d.getElementById('m');
var a = d.getElementById('a');

var a = d.getElementById('a').getAttribute('id');
gives me the 'id'.  From there I can create the 'id' of the desired tag, 
which solves my immediate problem.

I'm still curious as to why the <a> behaves differently???

m.innerHTML = a;
//--></script>
</body>
</html>
 var a = d.getElementById('a').innerText;
by the way adding href="" to the anchor tag will let  var a =
d.getElementById('a'); return the href it self, if you still need an 
output
that looks like:
[object HTMLanchorElement]

tell me and will find a work around for you...

Thanks for your generous offer, Bassel.

I need the node so I can use "nextSibling".

As you pointed out "document.getElementById()" returns not the id, but 
the href.  (That really puzzles me and differs from the O'Reilly books 
on Javascript and Dynamic HTML).

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