Sorry I wasn't specific enough...
What I tried to do initially was something like this:
function setText(text,fSize,fFamily,fColor) {
myLayer.setHTML('<DIV STYLE="font-size:' + fSize + ';fontFamily:' +
fFamily + ';color:' + fColor + '">' + text + '<DIV>');
}
Which didn't work very well. It seemed to work the first time setText
was called, but not on any subsequent calls. It would write the text in
the layer without the style applied to it, just whatever the browser
defaults were. This also seemed to be partly related to how many
instances of the widget I had created, but I can't really quantify that
behavior at this point.
What I ended up doing was this:
function setText(text,fSize,fFamily,fColor) {
myLayer.setHTML('<DIV STYLE="font-size:' + fSize + ';fontFamily:' +
fFamily + ';color:' + fColor + '">' + text + '<DIV><DIV
STYLE="font-size:' + fSize +
';fontFamily:' + fFamily + ';color:' + fColor + '">' + text + '<DIV>');
}
Just putting two of the exact same DIV into the text passed to setHTML.
Why? As I said in my first post, I had some prior experience with
Netscape ignoring styles
placed into documents with document.write(). Specifically, if I passed
document.write() a long text string with many individual words
surrounded by DIV layers, it
would always ignore the style in the first DIV it encountered. I could
do "view-source" and see that the DIV and it's style were in the code,
it just wouldn't render it.
So.... by passing two identical DIVS in this case, I got it to render
the style properly.
Jeff Greenberg
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Richard Bennett wrote:
> passed the setHTML method TWO divs, both exactly the same. BOOM. It
could you explain exactly what you did please?
Cheers,
Richard Bennett
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www.richardinfo.com
(Everything running on, and ported to the 19/12/2000 snapshot of
DynAPI2)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Greenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:01 AM
Subject: [Dynapi-Help] Bizarre solution to setHTML and inline styles
in NS
> Like others, I have noticed that using setHTML to write styles to
nested
> layers in Netscape only works sporadically. On the widget I am now
> working on, I found that the first time I wrote the style to the
nested
> layer, it worked fine, but on subsequent setHTML's, it didn't.
>
> Well, that reminded me of a problem I had encountered while working
on
> something for my company. I was creating some javascript to
highlight
> the search terms in text returned from a query by replacing the
terms in
> the text with <SPAN> tags and appropriate bg colors for
highlighting.
> Worked fine in IE, but on Netscape, the browser always ignored the
style
> for the first <SPAN> tag, while rendering the others correctly.
>
> Now, that's not exactly in line with the above mentioned problem,
but it
> certainly seemed related to me, so.... in the widget I am working
on, I
> passed the setHTML method TWO divs, both exactly the same. BOOM. It
> works.
>
> This is really a weird kind of bug, but there ya go. If anyone else
> tries this out, let me know how it works for you.
>
> Jeff Greenberg
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