<DIV> tag

[chirs]

Hi,

What are the menu and cmd attributes in the following code? I could
not find the information for these two attributes to be used in a
<DIV> tag. Someone told me that you can define customised attribute
for <DIV> tag. Is that true? Thank you. Here is the code:

<DIV class=Bar id=Bar1 menu="menu1" target='_top"'
cmd="/app/login/ctrl.jsp?cmd=pi peline.main">Pi peline</DIV>

I found the target tag in O'Reilly book called Dynamic HTML The
Definitive Reference on Page 240. But I can't find it in www.w3c.org.

Chris

[Martin Honnen]

Re: &lt;DIV&gt; tag



chirs wrote:[color=blue]
> What are the menu and cmd attributes in the following code? I could
> not find the information for these two attributes to be used in a
> <DIV> tag. Someone told me that you can define customised attribute
> for <DIV> tag. Is that true? Thank you. Here is the code:
>
> <DIV class=Bar id=Bar1 menu="menu1" target='_top"'
> cmd="/app/login/ctrl.jsp?cmd=pi peline.main">Pi peline</DIV>
>
> I found the target tag in O'Reilly book called Dynamic HTML The
> Definitive Reference on Page 240. But I can't find it in www.w3c.org.[/color]

Those attributes are indeed not part of HTML 4's <div> element. Thus
they are custom attributes defined by the page author. Depending on the
browser you can read them as
elementObject.g etAttribute('ta rget')
respectively
elementObject.t arget
The first should work with Netscape 6/7, IE5+, Opera 7, the second with
IE4+.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Evertjan.]

Re: &lt;DIV&gt; tag

chirs wrote on 26 nov 2003 in comp.lang.javas cript:
[color=blue]
> What are the menu and cmd attributes in the following code? I could
> not find the information for these two attributes to be used in a
> <DIV> tag. Someone told me that you can define customised attribute
> for <DIV> tag. Is that true? Thank you. Here is the code:
>
> <DIV class=Bar id=Bar1 menu="menu1" target='_top"'
> cmd="/app/login/ctrl.jsp?cmd=pi peline.main">Pi peline</DIV>
>
> I found the target tag in O'Reilly book called Dynamic HTML The
> Definitive Reference on Page 240. But I can't find it in www.w3c.org.
>[/color]

IE6, at least, will let you do this:

=============== ==========

<DIV class=Bar id=Bar1 menu="menu1" target='_top"'
cmd="/app/login/ctrl.jsp?cmd=pi peline.main">Pi peline</DIV>
<br>

<script>

document.write( Bar1.menu+"<br> ");
document.write( Bar1.cmd+"<br>" );
document.write( Bar1.className+ "<br>");
document.write( Bar1.innerText+ "<br>");
document.write( Bar1.target+"<b r>");

</script>

=============== ===========

The id as globalised object is however not universal.

btw: This will be only slightly usefull in IE:

=============== ===========

<DIV
onclick='locati on.href=cmd'
cmd="http://cnn.com">
Pipeline</DIV>

=============== ===========
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Evertjan.
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