clearing out a <span>

[JehanNYNJ]

I need to clear out the HTML contents of a <span> element and then
re-add that element as a blank span.

Here is the code...

var elem = document.getElementById(spanId);

var deletedElem = elem.parentNode.removeChild(elem);
deletedElem.innerHTML = '<span id="'+spanId+'"></span>';
deletedElem.parentNode.appendChild(deletedElem);

This does not work. When I try to getElementById the second time the
function is called it does not find the span I added. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Stan Brown]

"" wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:

var elem = document.getElementById(spanId);

Javascript questions (if the above is Javascript) are better
directed to a Javascript group. This is
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.HTML.

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