changing text with Javascript/DHTML?

[Chris Ryan]

Is there a way to change the displayed text on a web page using some
combination of Javascript and DHTML? NOT in a text box. As far as I
know (with my limited knowledge) the only way you can do this is with
a textbox or images, which is not what I'd like to do. There's gotta
be a way to do this, right?

[kaeli]

Re: changing text with Javascript/DHTML?

In article <73a63a2f.04071 61142.7f7ce51c@ posting.google. com>, cryan3
@earthlink.net enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> Is there a way to change the displayed text on a web page using some
> combination of Javascript and DHTML? NOT in a text box. As far as I
> know (with my limited knowledge) the only way you can do this is with
> a textbox or images, which is not what I'd like to do. There's gotta
> be a way to do this, right?
>[/color]

Sure, if you're targeting recent DOM browsers. Put it in a div and use
DOM methods and/or change innerHTML (I prefer DOM methods to just
changin innerHTML).

Can't do it in older browsers very well, but even NN4 could change the
content of a layer.

Netscape/Mozilla:
<http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_el_ref.html #1021544>
MSIE:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/dhtml_reference _entry.asp>

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[Grant Wagner]

Re: changing text with Javascript/DHTML?

Chris Ryan wrote:
[color=blue]
> Is there a way to change the displayed text on a web page using some
> combination of Javascript and DHTML? NOT in a text box. As far as I
> know (with my limited knowledge) the only way you can do this is with
> a textbox or images, which is not what I'd like to do. There's gotta
> be a way to do this, right?[/color]

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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: changing text with Javascript/DHTML?

Chris Ryan wrote:[color=blue]
> Is there a way to change the displayed text on a web page using some
> combination of Javascript and DHTML? NOT in a text box. [...]
> There's gotta be a way to do this, right?[/color]

There is. And if you would have cared to use the tool that you are
using for posting also for (re)search, you would not have had to ask.


PointedEars