On 1/12/06, Matthias Buchetics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am relatively new to Rails and I can't get the following to work:
> what I am trying to do is to make the first item of a list to flash:
>
> var item = $('items').firstChild;
> new Effect.Highlight(item);
>
> I get the this Javascript error message:
> this._base has no child (effects.js, line 445)
>
> But I am able to do this without any problems:
> var item = $('items');
> new Effect.Highlight(item);
> (now the whole list flashes)
>
> My list looks like that:
> <ul id="items">
> <li>test1</li>
> <li>test2</li>
> <li>test3</li>
> </ul>
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
> MatthiasHi Matthias If you're using a Mozilla-based browser, the firstChild call is probably returning an empty text node. Moz inserts these all over the place - you can check with the DOM inspector under the 'Tools' menu. Try using a different method to get at the children; enumerating and checking what type they are might be a way to do it, but it depends on your ultimate goal. Hope that helps! Dave -- Dave Goodlad [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://david.goodlad.ca/ _______________________________________________ Rails-spinoffs mailing list Rails-spinoffs@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-spinoffs
