what about innerText() || textContent();
?
Alex Mcauley
http://www.thevacancymarket.com
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From: "Yaz" <[email protected]>
To: "Prototype & script.aculo.us" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 4:13 PM
Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Re: readAttribute problem
I can't believe something so simple would be so... unintuitive.
Walter you're right. And I'm an idiot. :)
-yaz
On May 10, 11:10 am, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
Okay. $('tag').innerHTML.stripTags() will get you the inner text of
the A tag in most browsers. Not sure if it's completely available on
every browser supported by Prototype, but it should be fairly
consistent.
Walter
On May 10, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
> $F is only for form elements. You can't use it on an A or another
> non-form text container, as the OP would like. You could try maybe
> tag.toString().stripTags() to get the inner text in a cross-browser
> manner.
> Walter
> On May 10, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Yaz wrote:
>> You are trying to get the value of that tag, not an attribute.
>> To do that, use these:
>> $('tag'),getValue();
>> Or its shortcut:
>> $F('tag');
>>http://api.prototypejs.org/dom/form/element/getvalue/
>> -yaz
>> On May 10, 6:40 am, vtsuper <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Dear sir,
>>> the following is the offical example of read attribute. But would
>>> you
>>> tell me how to make it return the text 'Prototype'?
>>> <a id="tag" href="/tags/prototype" rel="tag" title="view related
>>> bookmarks." my_widget="some info.">Prototype</a>
>>> $('tag').readAttribute('href');
>>> // -> '/tags/prototype'
>>> $('tag').readAttribute('title');
>>> // -> 'view related bookmarks.'
>>> $('tag').readAttribute('my_widget');
>>> // -> 'some info.'
>>> I have try
>>> $('tag').readAttribute('text');
>>> // -> 'null'
>>> $('tag').readAttribute(innerHTML);
>>> // -> 'null'
>>> but both of them not work.
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