replacing innerHTML in xhtml

[Denis McMahon]

Hi

A relative has a web page that they want to work with google checkout,
so it has to be xhtml, as the google scripts require xhtml.

However, I wish to replace the text content of an id'd span.

In html 4.01, I could do this with the innerhtml property, but that's
not supported in xhtml.

Any suggestions? I can find examples that show me how to create an
additional textnode and add text to it, but not ones that show me how to
update or replace [the content of] an existing textnode.

Denis McMahon

[Martin Honnen]

Denis McMahon wrote:

A relative has a web page that they want to work with google checkout,
so it has to be xhtml, as the google scripts require xhtml.

However, I wish to replace the text content of an id'd span.

In html 4.01, I could do this with the innerhtml property, but that's
not supported in xhtml.

Any suggestions? I can find examples that show me how to create an
additional textnode and add text to it, but not ones that show me how to
update or replace [the content of] an existing textnode.

document.getElementById('spanId').firstChild.nodeV alue = 'foo';

However as long as you serve the XHTML document as text/html it should
be no problem at all to use innerHTML, and even if the XHTML is served
as application/xhtml+xml then browsers like Firefox 1.5 and later
support innerHTML for XHTML elements.

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

[Harlan Messinger]

Denis McMahon wrote:

Hi

A relative has a web page that they want to work with google checkout,
so it has to be xhtml, as the google scripts require xhtml.

However, I wish to replace the text content of an id'd span.

In html 4.01, I could do this with the innerhtml property, but that's
not supported in xhtml.

It won't be supported anyway, because Javascript is case-sensitive, and
innerhtml doesn't exist. Maybe IE has recognized this in quirks mode.