changing text with Javascript/DHTML?

[Chris Ryan]

Is there a way to change the displayed text on a web page using some
combination of Javascript and DHTML? NOT in a text box. As far as I
know (with my limited knowledge) the only way you can do this is with
a textbox or images, which is not what I'd like to do. There's gotta
be a way to do this, right?

[kaeli]

In article <73**************************@posting.google.com >, cryan3
@earthlink.net enlightened us with...

Is there a way to change the displayed text on a web page using some
combination of Javascript and DHTML? NOT in a text box. As far as I
know (with my limited knowledge) the only way you can do this is with
a textbox or images, which is not what I'd like to do. There's gotta
be a way to do this, right?

Sure, if you're targeting recent DOM browsers. Put it in a div and use
DOM methods and/or change innerHTML (I prefer DOM methods to just
changin innerHTML).

Can't do it in older browsers very well, but even NN4 could change the
content of a layer.

Netscape/Mozilla:
<http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_el_ref.html#1021544>
MSIE:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/dhtml_reference_entry.asp>

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[Grant Wagner]

Chris Ryan wrote:

Is there a way to change the displayed text on a web page using some
combination of Javascript and DHTML? NOT in a text box. As far as I
know (with my limited knowledge) the only way you can do this is with
a textbox or images, which is not what I'd like to do. There's gotta
be a way to do this, right?

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[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Chris Ryan wrote:

Is there a way to change the displayed text on a web page using some
combination of Javascript and DHTML? NOT in a text box. [...]
There's gotta be a way to do this, right?

There is. And if you would have cared to use the tool that you are
using for posting also for (re)search, you would not have had to ask.
PointedEars