Hi Cyrus, The text node can only exist within one div, it's not a quantum particle happily living in superposition across all five. :-) It's getting appended five times, but each time the previous parent loses it: "appendChild: Adds the node newChild to the end of the list of children of this node. If the newChild is already in the tree, it is first removed."[1]
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#ID-184E7107 HTH, -- T.J. Crowder tj / crowder software / com On Dec 12, 3:00 pm, Cyrus <arianglan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a weird problem. Imagine following html code: > > <div class="test"></div> > <div class="test"></div> > <div class="test"></div> > <div class="test"></div> > <div class="test"></div> > > I want to insert other html-code inside all divs class="test": > > var html = document.createTextNode('test'); > $$('.test').each(function(element) { > element.appendChild(html); > console.log(element); > > }); > > This javascript code is executed after the dom:loaded event is fired. > The each function is executed 5 times, only html is appended only once > (at the last div). If I exchange the line: > > element.appendChild(html); > > into: > > element.appendChild(document.createTextNode('test')); > > every div contains the text 'test' -> Does anyone knows why it only > works once with a variable? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---