Replace Heading in Table

[Larry R Harrison Jr]

I have Javascript called in HTML which runs a slide show. One thing that the
HTML does is it has a "heading" just over the picture that never changes.
I'd like to be able to have this heading be replaced with some other value
to match the slide.

The slides are run with code like this; this is just part of it:

<select name="slide" onChange="chang e();">
<option value="photos\5 857250r10198.jp g" selected>Ukrani an students welcome
us to TCI
<option value="photos\5 857729-r104521.jpg" selected>Tucson team with
translators, at KCC
</select>
The function that runs the slide is ap(this.value) and the value in "option
value" is what appears in "this.value ."

Notice the descriptions to the right of each picture? I'd like to have the
heading be replaced with whatever that description is. Currently the
DROP-DOWN BOX does, but I'd like the heading to also--to give the photo a
large & obvious heading you can't miss.

Tips?

LRH

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Larry R Harrison Jr wrote:

[...]
<select name="slide" onChange="chang e();">
<option value="photos\5 857250r10198.jp g" selected>Ukrani an students
welcome us to TCI
<option value="photos\5 857729-r104521.jpg" selected>Tucson team with
translators, at KCC
</select>
The function that runs the slide is ap(this.value) and the value in
"option value" is what appears in "this.value ."

Notice the descriptions to the right of each picture? I'd like to have the
heading be replaced with whatever that description is. Currently the
DROP-DOWN BOX does, but I'd like the heading to also--to give the photo a
large & obvious heading you can't miss.

Assuming that the image and heading is specified as

<div id="descr" style="position :relative; left:0; top:0">&nbsp;</div>
<img src="..." alt="..." ...>

you could write

if (document.getEl ementById)
{
this.getElemByI d = function getElemById(id)
{
return document.getEle mentById(id);
}
}
else if (document.all)
{
this.getElemByI d = function getElemById(id)
{
return document.all(id );
}
}
else if (document.layer s)
{
this.getElemByI d = function getElemById(id)
{
return document.layers[id];
}
}
else
{
this.getElemByI d = function getElemById()
{
return null;
}
}

function ap(v)
{
// ...
var descr = getElemById("de scr");
if (descr)
{
if (descr.firstChi ld) descr.firstChil d.nodeValue = v; // DOM 2+
else if (descr.innerHTM L) descr.innerHTML = v; // DOM 0
else if (descr.innerTex t) descr.innerText = v; // IE DOM
else if (descr.document ) // NN4 DOM
{
descr = descr.document;
descr.open();
descr.write(v);
descr.close();
}
}
// ...
}
HTH

PointedEars

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