Push a DOM element down one level?

[Kevin Smith]

I want to take a document that contains a number of tables and wrap the
tables inside new elements. I have tried something similar to the
following:

tparent = table.parentNod e;
wrapper = document.create Element('DIV');
wrapper.appendC hild(table);
tparent.replace Child(wrapper,t able);

This doesn't seem to work though (tested in Safari).

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Kevin Smith
Kevin.Smith@sas .com

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: Push a DOM element down one level?

Kevin Smith <Kevin.Smith@sa s.com> writes:
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> I want to take a document that contains a number of tables and wrap the
> tables inside new elements. I have tried something similar to the
> following:
>
> tparent = table.parentNod e;
> wrapper = document.create Element('DIV');
> wrapper.appendC hild(table);[/color]

A DOM node can only have one parent. At this point, you *move* the
table into the wrapper ...
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> tparent.replace Child(wrapper,t able);[/color]

.... so it is no longer a child of tparent.

Try switching the operations:

tparent = table.parentNod e;
wrapper = document.create Element('DIV');
tparent.replace Child(wrapper,t able);
wrapper.appendC hild(table);

/L
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