On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 09:33 -0600, Peter Pei wrote:
> > Sort of.
> >
> > Like I said, the folling will work:
> >
> > document.getElementById("question").innerHTML;
> >
> > While you are using a getElementById, which returns an ID, but adding
> > .innerHTML will return the class value.
> >
> > Try it.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > tedd
>
> No, this will not work, if it appeared working, please re-check your data,
> and make sure you didn't miss anything...
>
> Run the following in any browser, and see whether you get a pop up, then
> change class= to ID=, and run it again.
> <body onload='alert(document.getElementById("question").innerHTML)'>
> <p class="question">
> Who is Roger Rabbit?
> </p>
> </body>
>
> innerHTML works off an object, and it does nothing if youu cannot even
> locate the object in the first place.
>
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It might have worked in Internet Explorer, as for a while that browser
got confused over the class and id if two different elements on a page
had the same class and id values.
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
