[mochikit] Re: Walk child nodes of an element

2007-12-10 Thread machineghost 

Would something like this work?

function recursiveDigForText(someElement){
if(someElement.firstChild.tagName)
return someElement.innerHTML;
else
return recursiveDigForText(someElement.firstChild);
}

On Dec 10, 7:53 am, JS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 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
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[mochikit] Re: Walk child nodes of an element

2007-12-10 Thread Jason Bunting 


To what end do you want to get at the text? If you simply want to grab it,
use scrapeText()...

Jason

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 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
 
 


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[mochikit] Re: Walk child nodes of an element

2007-12-10 Thread JS 

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

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