var.innerHTML where var is a variable!!

[Keiron Waites]

Is there any way to use a variable.innerH TML = ""; instead of text.innerHTML
= "";? It doesn't seem to work for me.

Thanks,

Keiron

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: var.innerHTML where var is a variable!!

"Keiron Waites" <webmaster@-NOSPAM-sharemonkey.com > writes:
[color=blue]
> Is there any way to use a variable.innerH TML = ""; instead of text.innerHTML
> = "";? It doesn't seem to work for me.[/color]

I am sorry, but I can't see what you are trying to do.

The "innerHTML" property is a property of Document Object Model nodes,
not of text strings. You can do
document.getEle mentById("elemN ame").innerHTM L = "<em>foo</em>";
and you can do
var variable = document.getEle mentById("elemN ame");
variable.innerH TML = "<em>foo</em>";
but you can't write
"text string".innerHT ML = "<em>foo</em>";

I am afraid you will ahve to be a little more explicit about what you
are trying to do, if we are to be able to help you.

(and as a side note, you can't have a variable called "var". That is
a reserved word in Javascript.)

/L
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[Martin Honnen]

Re: var.innerHTML where var is a variable!!



Keiron Waites wrote:[color=blue]
> Is there any way to use a variable.innerH TML = ""; instead of text.innerHTML
> = "";? It doesn't seem to work for me.[/color]

Use
var element;
if (document.all) {
element = document.all[variable];
}
else if (document.getEl ementById) {
element = document.getEle mentById(variab le);
}
if (element) {
element.innerHT ML = ...
}



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Martin Honnen

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