DU <dr*******@hotR EMOVEmail.com> wrote in message news:<bh******* ***@news.eusc.i nter.net>...
Joe Kelsey wrote:
I want to create dynamic content and use replaceChild to switch out
different subtrees. I start with a span placeholder:
<span id="replaceMe"> </span>
Then I use document.getEle mentById ("replaceMe" ) to find the element
to replace. I create a subtree using standard DOM:
var table = document.create Element ("table");
table.insertRow ();
....
var replace = document.getEle mentById ("replaceMe" );
replace.parent. replaceChild (table, replace);
This is not recommendable. You're setting a block-level element as a
child of an inline element. You can't do that, I'm afraid.
This reply makes no sense.
I can certainly dynamically insert a table into the span and later
remove it. I have tested this.
If I intend to replace the node several times, should I instead use:
var span = document.create Element ("span");
span.appendChil d (table);
var replace = document.getEle mentById ("replaceMe" );
span.id = replace.id;
I don't think you can do the above. Each element can have an id which
has to be unique.
So, DWIM:
var id = replace.id;
....
span.id = id;
replace.parent. replaceChild (span, replace);
I don't understand what you're trying to do here. The above code does
not look
What happened to your reply? Again, an unintelligible comment.
Does it become clearer if I write the code:
if (0 == yesno)
{
span.removeChil d (span.firstChil d);
}
else
{
span.appendChil d (someFunctionCr eatingTable (x));
{
Does anyone have alternative ideas for replacing portions of documents
that do not resort to using innerHTML or other abominations?
/Joe
cloneNode(deep)
"If true, recursively clone the subtree under the specified node;"
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Le...ml#ID-3A0ED0A4
cloneNode does nothing useful to me, I want to insert a subtree into
the document. cloneNode produces a copy of a subtree, but the subtree
still does not exist in the document. appendChild and replaceChild do
exactly what I want, i.e., insert a subtree into the document. I have
a newly created subtree rooted at a HTMLTable element that I want to
place in (or remove from) the document.
If I remove a subtree using removeChild, do events related to elements
of the subtree get automatically removed or do I have to remove the
events before removing the subtree? Specifically, the table I insert
into the document consists of a variable number of columns, each
column being a <select> node with an attached onChange event listener.
I keep a pointer to the select nodes and may swap out the whole
subtree when other select items change.
Do I have the right idiom here or do I need to use some other means of
swapping content?
