<DIV> tag

[chirs]

Hi,

What are the menu and cmd attributes in the following code? I could
not find the information for these two attributes to be used in a
<DIV> tag. Someone told me that you can define customised attribute
for <DIV> tag. Is that true? Thank you. Here is the code:

<DIV class=Bar id=Bar1 menu="menu1" target='_top"'
cmd="/app/login/ctrl.jsp?cmd=pipeline.main">Pipeline</DIV>

I found the target tag in O'Reilly book called Dynamic HTML The
Definitive Reference on Page 240. But I can't find it in www.w3c.org.

Chris

[Martin Honnen]

chirs wrote:

What are the menu and cmd attributes in the following code? I could
not find the information for these two attributes to be used in a
<DIV> tag. Someone told me that you can define customised attribute
for <DIV> tag. Is that true? Thank you. Here is the code:

<DIV class=Bar id=Bar1 menu="menu1" target='_top"'
cmd="/app/login/ctrl.jsp?cmd=pipeline.main">Pipeline</DIV>

I found the target tag in O'Reilly book called Dynamic HTML The
Definitive Reference on Page 240. But I can't find it in www.w3c.org.

Those attributes are indeed not part of HTML 4's <div> element. Thus
they are custom attributes defined by the page author. Depending on the
browser you can read them as
elementObject.getAttribute('target')
respectively
elementObject.target
The first should work with Netscape 6/7, IE5+, Opera 7, the second with
IE4+.

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

[Evertjan.]

chirs wrote on 26 nov 2003 in comp.lang.javascript:

What are the menu and cmd attributes in the following code? I could
not find the information for these two attributes to be used in a
<DIV> tag. Someone told me that you can define customised attribute
for <DIV> tag. Is that true? Thank you. Here is the code:

<DIV class=Bar id=Bar1 menu="menu1" target='_top"'
cmd="/app/login/ctrl.jsp?cmd=pipeline.main">Pipeline</DIV>

I found the target tag in O'Reilly book called Dynamic HTML The
Definitive Reference on Page 240. But I can't find it in www.w3c.org.

IE6, at least, will let you do this:

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<DIV class=Bar id=Bar1 menu="menu1" target='_top"'
cmd="/app/login/ctrl.jsp?cmd=pipeline.main">Pipeline</DIV>
<br>

<script>

document.write(Bar1.menu+"<br>");
document.write(Bar1.cmd+"<br>");
document.write(Bar1.className+"<br>");
document.write(Bar1.innerText+"<br>");
document.write(Bar1.target+"<br>");

</script>

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The id as globalised object is however not universal.

btw: This will be only slightly usefull in IE:

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<DIV
onclick='location.href=cmd'
cmd="http://cnn.com">
Pipeline</DIV>

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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
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