Thanks for your explanation Walter. My problem was that I had expected the Updater to know whether to use .value or .innerHTML automagically. cheers, Matthew
On Sep 30, 8:56 pm, Walter Lee Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, it's not a bug. A Textarea is a form element, not a DIV or > another text container. Form elements have a value, and therefore > that's what you change. DIVs and Ps and other valid text containers > do not have a value attribute, only children. innerHTML is a way to > change the children without going all the way through the DOM tree > beneath the parent element, either declaratively or programmatically. > > Walter > > On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:48 AM, Matthew G wrote: > > > > > > > Problem: When using Ajax.Updater to set the content of a textarea, > > any newlines in the received content are not shown in IE6, but are > > shown in Opera, Firefox, Chrome. > > > I think the reason is that Ajax.Updater is setting .innerHTML, > > not .value on the textarea. One can workaround by using Ajax.Request > > and setting the .value of the textarea in the callback. Is this a > > bug? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
