document.write( ) in the middle of a document?

[jullag]

Hi,

does anyone know of any javascript method that does the same job as
document.write( ), but not necessarily at the end of the document? For
instance, insert some text inside an element that has a specific ID
tag?
thanks a lot
JL

[Evertjan.]

jullag wrote on 19 sep 2005 in comp.lang.javas cript:

Hi,

does anyone know of any javascript method that does the same job as
document.write( ), but not necessarily at the end of the document? For
instance, insert some text inside an element that has a specific ID
tag?
thanks a lot
JL

document.write( ) can be used anywhere in a html document, but it should
only be used before the document is fully loaded and an implicit
document.close( ) is issued.

Any next document.write( ) will implicidly do a document.open() , thereby
destroying the whole page inclusive of any onpage javascript.
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[Dr Clue]

jullag wrote:

does anyone know of any javascript method that does the same job as
document.write( ), but not necessarily at the end of the document? For
instance, insert some text inside an element that has a specific ID
tag?
thanks a lot
JL

document.getEle mentById("MyDiv ").innerHTML="w hatever"
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[Frances]

Dr Clue wrote:

jullag wrote:

does anyone know of any javascript method that does the same job as
document.write( ), but not necessarily at the end of the document? For
instance, insert some text inside an element that has a specific ID
tag?
thanks a lot
JL

document.getEle mentById("MyDiv ").innerHTML="w hatever"

I'm also having a document.write( ) problem.. document.write is
generated dynamically, and everything else in the page disappears when
document.write( ) executes.. thank you...

Frances

[Lee]

Frances said:

Dr Clue wrote:

jullag wrote:

does anyone know of any javascript method that does the same job as
document.write( ), but not necessarily at the end of the document? For
instance, insert some text inside an element that has a specific ID
tag?
thanks a lot
JL

document.getEle mentById("MyDiv ").innerHTML="w hatever"

I'm also having a document.write( ) problem.. document.write is
generated dynamically, and everything else in the page disappears when
document.write () executes.. thank you...

That's exactly what document.write( ) is supposed to do.
The first call to document.write( ) after the page has been displayed
generates a call to document.open() , to re-open it for writing.
document.open() , in turn, always calls document.clear( );

[web.dev]

jullag wrote:

Hi,

does anyone know of any javascript method that does the same job as
document.write( ), but not necessarily at the end of the document? For
instance, insert some text inside an element that has a specific ID
tag?
thanks a lot
JL

Hi JL,

Off the top of my head, I can think of 2 ways.

Suppose you had an element:

<div id = "mydiv"></div>

and you wanted to insert text in between the div tag. You can do the
following:

var div = document.getEle mentById("mydiv ");
var text = document.create TextNode("my text");
div.appendChild (text);

OR

document.getEle mentById("mydiv ").innerHTM L = "my text";

Hope this helps. :)

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <43************ *********@news. sunsite.dk>, dated Mon,
19 Sep 2005 13:48:51, seen in news:comp.lang. javascript, Frances
<fd***@yahoo.co m> posted :

Dr Clue wrote:

jullag wrote:

does anyone know of any javascript method that does the same job as
document.write( ), but not necessarily at the end of the document? For
instance, insert some text inside an element that has a specific ID
tag?

document.getEle mentById("MyDiv ").innerHTML="w hatever"

I'm also having a document.write( ) problem.. document.write is
generated dynamically, and everything else in the page disappears when
document.write () executes.. thank you...

Both respondents, and the OP, should read the newsgroup FAQ.

To be clueful, recommendation of getElementByID should be accompanied by
noting that it does not work on all browsers (see FAQ) and that it can
be emulated well enough for some of the others.

if (document.all && !document.getEl ementById) {
document.getEle mentById = function(id) { return document.all[id] } }

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[Randy Webb]

Dr John Stockton said the following on 9/19/2005 4:20 PM:

JRS: In article <43************ *********@news. sunsite.dk>, dated Mon,
19 Sep 2005 13:48:51, seen in news:comp.lang. javascript, Frances
<fd***@yahoo.co m> posted :

Dr Clue wrote:

jullag wrote:
does anyone know of any javascript method that does the same job as
document.wr ite(), but not necessarily at the end of the document? For
instance, insert some text inside an element that has a specific ID
tag?
document.get ElementById("My Div").innerHTML ="whatever"

I'm also having a document.write( ) problem.. document.write is
generated dynamically, and everything else in the page disappears when
document.writ e() executes.. thank you...

Both respondents, and the OP, should read the newsgroup FAQ.

To be clueful, recommendation of getElementByID should be accompanied by
noting that it does not work on all browsers (see FAQ) and that it can
be emulated well enough for some of the others.

if (document.all && !document.getEl ementById) {
document.getEle mentById = function(id) { return document.all[id] } }

And that it is only needed for a browser that is almost 10 years old?

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[cwdjrxyz]

jullag wrote:

Hi,

does anyone know of any javascript method that does the same job as
document.write( ), but not necessarily at the end of the document? For
instance, insert some text inside an element that has a specific ID
tag?
thanks a lot
JL

It is interesting that document.write is taboo in xhtml 1.1 served
correctly as application/xhtml+xml. Most of the recent browsers can
handle this mime type, but not the badly outmoded IE6(you can use a php
include at the very top of the page to automatically rewrite the code
as html 4.01 strict if you run into an outmoded browser). When you
write in xhtml 1.1 and serve as the correct mentioned mime type, modern
browsers including Opera and the Mozilla family(Mozilla, Firefox,
Netscape) become extremely strict and parse the code as xml. One reason
a document.write can not be allowed, is there is no telling what it
might write including tags that are not closed or xml forbidden
characters. Thus document.write can not be allowed. If you use
document.write, even in an external script, the page will not display
and you may get a xml parse error message from the browser. I often use
server-side php script to get around this problem. For example, my
60000 year perpetual calendar needs hundreds of divisions to write a
calendar for a full year. This was done with javascript using a
document.write at the bottom of a nest of 4 "for" loops to write all of
the divisions. This all had to go on conversion to xhtml 1.1 served
with the proper mime type. One enters the desired year, which is sent
to the server. Then the server uses php to write the code for the
calendar for the selected year, which produces hundreds of divisions.
This code is then downloaded to the browser, and the xml parser is
pleased because it can check all of the computed divisions for closing
tags, xml forbidden characters, and such. Many are kicking and
screaming about using true xhtml, but it can be done now in most cases
with automatic conversion to html 4.01 strict for outmoded browsers. If
one only considered PCs, there might be little justification for xhtml
and xml purity. However there are now a large number of computing
devices out there in addition to PCs. To allow the many devices to
exchange information, they all need to conform to xml or some other
standard they they all can understand. For now, xml seems to be the
best common language for most devices that we have.

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <49************ ********@comcas t.com>, dated Mon, 19 Sep
2005 18:58:42, seen in news:comp.lang. javascript, Randy Webb
<Hi************ @aol.com> posted :

Dr John Stockton said the following on 9/19/2005 4:20 PM:

To be clueful, recommendation of getElementByID should be accompanied by
noting that it does not work on all browsers (see FAQ) and that it can
be emulated well enough for some of the others.

if (document.all && !document.getEl ementById) {
document.getEle mentById = function(id) { return document.all[id] } }

And that it is only needed for a browser that is almost 10 years old?

You exaggerate : the system age is less than three-quarters of that.

Not everyone uses the latest systems (vulnerable to the latest malware).
Indeed, you yourself are using, AIUI, an out-of-date newsreader.

<QUOTE>
Can

User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en

be set to properly unambiguous date-stamps, rather than such as

9/1/2005 6:13 PM meaning Sep 1st

and, if so, how?

I don't think it's alterable, but there have been several upgrades
since then. Version 1.0.2 gives the proper dd mmm yyyy hh:mm:ss format.

</QUOTE>

Of course, even that format is not as proper as it would be if it
followed ISO 8601.

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