Sergio del Amo Caballero wrote:
Hi,
I have a structure like this in my xhtml 1.0 file.
<body>
<div>
<a>
<img ... id="f1" />
<span>....</span><br/>
<span>....</span>
</a>
---> <div>
<img />
<span>....</span><br/>
<span>....</span>
</div>
---> <div>
<img />
<span>....</span><br/>
<span>....</span>
</div>
</div>
</body>
I want to acces the div blocks with the arrows from a java script. I use
the javas script object reference elment node. When somebody clicks on
the image with id f1, i want to make invisible the div elements with
arrows.
I try to write this:
function make_visible(id _img){
document.getEle mentById(id_img ).parentNode.pa rentNode.childN odes[2].style.display= "none";
document.getEle mentById(id_img ).parentNode.pa rentNode.childN odes[3].style.display= "none";
}
but it does not work.
If i write :
document.getEle mentById(id_img ).parentNode.pa rentNode.childN odes[1].style.display= "none";
after clicking the <a> block gets invisible. The next child will be the
div element. Isn't it?
I do not understand why it does not work, can anybody help me?
I'm just adding a few notes to what Martin replied to you.
Whitespace in the DOM:
"The presence of whitespace in the DOM can make manipulation of the
content tree difficult in unforseen ways. In Mozilla, all whitespace in
the text content of the original document is represented in the DOM (...)"
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/technote/whitespace/
There are a number of ways to work around this Mozilla difficulty.
One would be to access the targeted node in a different manner. Here,
your instruction needs to travel 4 different node in the document tree.
So, even if the white space issue was not a problem, the code needed
would still involve a rather long DOM-Tree path. I personally would
examine this issue.
Second alternative would be to remove all white spaces involved. The
code used would work without adjustement for Mozilla-based browsers.
Also, removing white spaces makes the source document a bit faster to
parse and to render.
DU
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