Browsers won't let you insert broken HTML, so when you do:
$("myElement").insert({before: '<span>'});
the browser (not Prototype) actually transforms that to something like
this:
$("myElement").insert({before: '<span></span>'});
Hence your issues.
Best,
Tobie
On Feb 14, 5:12 pm, ohneworte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello together,
>
> I figured out a strange and - in my opinion - wrong behaviour in the
> Prototype function "Element.insert": There´s a simple <span>-Element
> somewhere in my website. Now I want to put another <span> Element
> around it (and I don´t want to use the "wrap"-method!!). So I am doing
> something like this:
>
> My Html:
> <span id="myElement"></span>
>
> My JavaScript:
> $("myElement").insert({before: '<span>'});
> $("myElement").insert({after: '</span>'});
>
> In the generated source-code it leads to:
> <span/>
> <span id="myElement"></span>
>
> So the new <span>-Tag is inserted before the element. Anyone an idea
> why?
>
> Best regards!
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