[mochikit] Walk child nodes of an element

2007-12-10 Thread JS
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

[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

[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 > -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 chi

[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 PRO