Can I change a p into a textarea?

[samslists@gmail.com]

Hi...

I've seen code which changes a paragraph into a textarea (to allow it
to be edited)...by creating a brand new text area, inserting that into
the dom at the right place, and deleting the paragraph from the dom.

I.e. http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/cms.html

What I'm wondering is: is there some way to simplify this? Can I
just tell the paragraph to become a textarea?

I'm pretty sure the answer is no...but I want to make sure there is no
way.

Thanks

[Peter Michaux]

Re: Can I change a p into a textarea?

On May 29, 8:36 pm, "samsli...@gmai l.com" <samsli...@gmai l.comwrote:

Hi...
>
I've seen code which changes a paragraph into a textarea (to allow it
to be edited)...by creating a brand new text area, inserting that into
the dom at the right place, and deleting the paragraph from the dom.
>
I.e.http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/cms.html
>
What I'm wondering is: is there some way to simplify this? Can I
just tell the paragraph to become a textarea?
>
I'm pretty sure the answer is no...but I want to make sure there is no
way.

I believe the answer is no. The tagName attribute is readonly

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-745549614

Peter

[samslists@gmail.com]

Re: Can I change a p into a textarea?

On May 29, 9:10 pm, Peter Michaux <petermich...@g mail.comwrote:

On May 29, 8:36 pm, "samsli...@gmai l.com" <samsli...@gmai l.comwrote:
>

Hi...

>

I've seen code which changes a paragraph into a textarea (to allow it
to be edited)...by creating a brand new text area, inserting that into
the dom at the right place, and deleting the paragraph from the dom.

>

I.e.http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/cms.html

>

What I'm wondering is:  is there some way to simplify this?  Can I
just tell the paragraph to become a textarea?

>

I'm pretty sure the answer is no...but I want to make sure there is no
way.

>
I believe the answer is no. The tagName attribute is readonly
>

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-745549614

>
Peter

Thank you for the response.

Ahh...it's a tagname. I was wondering what it was called. Seems a
shame that you can't do this.

Is there a library that creates a new element and deletes the old
element as if you had just changed the tagname? So I can get the same
behavior transparently?

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: Can I change a p into a textarea?

samslists@gmail .com wrote:

On May 29, 9:10 pm, Peter Michaux <petermich...@g mail.comwrote:

>On May 29, 8:36 pm, "samsli...@gmai l.com" <samsli...@gmai l.comwrote:

>>I've seen code which changes a paragraph into a textarea (to allow it
>>to be edited)...by creating a brand new text area, inserting that into
>>the dom at the right place, and deleting the paragraph from the dom.
>>I.e.http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/cms.html
>>What I'm wondering is: is there some way to simplify this? Can I
>>just tell the paragraph to become a textarea?
>>I'm pretty sure the answer is no...but I want to make sure there is no
>>way.

>I believe the answer is no. The tagName attribute is readonly
>>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Cor...l#ID-745549614

>
Thank you for the response.
>
Ahh...it's a tagname.

No, the attribute of the interface and the property of the implemented
object is called `tagName'.

I was wondering what it was called.

The attribute/property describes the type of the element represented by
the DOM object.

Seems a shame that you can't do this.

It isn't generally reasonable to do this. Different elements follow
different rules.

Is there a library that creates a new element and deletes the old
element as if you had just changed the tagname? So I can get the same
behavior transparently?

Probably yes.


PointedEars
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[Peter Michaux]

Re: Can I change a p into a textarea?

On May 29, 10:43 pm, "samsli...@gmai l.com" <samsli...@gmai l.com>
wrote:

On May 29, 9:10 pm, Peter Michaux <petermich...@g mail.comwrote:
>
>
>

On May 29, 8:36 pm, "samsli...@gmai l.com" <samsli...@gmai l.comwrote:

>

Hi...

>

I've seen code which changes a paragraph into a textarea (to allow it
to be edited)...by creating a brand new text area, inserting that into
the dom at the right place, and deleting the paragraph from the dom.

>

I.e.http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/cms.html

>

What I'm wondering is: is there some way to simplify this? Can I
just tell the paragraph to become a textarea?

>

I'm pretty sure the answer is no...but I want to make sure there is no
way.

>

I believe the answer is no. The tagName attribute is readonly

>

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Cor...l#ID-745549614

>

Peter

>
Thank you for the response.
>
Ahh...it's a tagname. I was wondering what it was called. Seems a
shame that you can't do this.
>
Is there a library that creates a new element and deletes the old
element as if you had just changed the tagname? So I can get the same
behavior transparently?

You could write your own. Here is an incomplete starter example:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">

<html>
<head>

<title>Page Title</title>

<script type="text/javascript">
function change(el) {
var ta = document.create Element('textar ea');
ta.rows = '10';
ta.cols = '70';
ta.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
el.parentNode.r eplaceChild(ta, el);
}
</script>

</head>
<body>

<p onclick="change (this);">
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</p>

</body>
</html>

Peter