var.innerHTML where var is a variable!!

[Keiron Waites]

Is there any way to use a variable.innerHTML = ""; instead of text.innerHTML
= "";? It doesn't seem to work for me.

Thanks,

Keiron

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

"Keiron Waites" <[e-mail]> writes:

Is there any way to use a variable.innerHTML = ""; instead of text.innerHTML
= "";? It doesn't seem to work for me.

I am sorry, but I can't see what you are trying to do.

The "innerHTML" property is a property of Document Object Model nodes,
not of text strings. You can do
document.getElementById("elemName").innerHTML = "<em>foo</em>";
and you can do
var variable = document.getElementById("elemName");
variable.innerHTML = "<em>foo</em>";
but you can't write
"text string".innerHTML = "<em>foo</em>";

I am afraid you will ahve to be a little more explicit about what you
are trying to do, if we are to be able to help you.

(and as a side note, you can't have a variable called "var". That is
a reserved word in Javascript.)

/L
--
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lr*@hotpop.com
Art D'HTML: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/randomArtSplit.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'

[Martin Honnen]

Keiron Waites wrote:

Is there any way to use a variable.innerHTML = ""; instead of text.innerHTML
= "";? It doesn't seem to work for me.

Use
var element;
if (document.all) {
element = document.all[variable];
}
else if (document.getElementById) {
element = document.getElementById(variable);
}
if (element) {
element.innerHTML = ...
}

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/