Jason: Thanks for the tip. scrapeText did exactly what I was looking for. Machineghost, thanks for your input as well. I was working out the details of that implementation, but thought the scrapeText was a cleaner way for me to handle it.
-Jim On Dec 10, 12:32 pm, "Jason Bunting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To what end do you want to get at the text? If you simply want to grab it, > use scrapeText()... > > Jason > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: mochikit@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of JS > > Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 8:53 AM > > To: MochiKit > > Subject: [mochikit] Walk child nodes of an element > > > Hi: > > > I'm quite new to MochiKit and javascript in general. For some reason, > > I can't figure out how to walk the child nodes of an element. I'm > > using version 1.3.1 of MochiKit with TurboGears. > > > I have table cell and am trying to drill down into the cell to get at > > the text that is being displayed in it. The cell could have some SPAN > > elements and then either text or a link. > > > In effect, I would like to do the following: > > > ... > > while cell.hasChildren() { > > cell = cell.firstChild; > > } > > > I realize that each cell could have multiple children, but in my > > specific case, it won't. > > > I'd really appreciate any pointers to examples or good documentation. > > > Thanks > > > -Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to mochikit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---