I should say navigate the use element. I realize that it is read only,
but I can't figure out how to do that. Thanks.
Sean wrote:
>Does any one have examples of using SVGUseElement & SVGElementInstance?
>Thanks.
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>Sean
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>Sean wrote:
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>>Hi Alastair,
>>
>>Thanks for the input. I figured as much with the id, but
>>getElementByName didn't work either. I was hoping that something would
>>work. I tried the childNodes and firstChild, but nothing works.
>>objet.childNodes.length returns 0, which appears to mean that the child
>>nodes under the use tag don't get recognized, rendering the approaches
>>below useless, no pun intended. My failure to get the use tags to work
>>would mean the difference between using 35,000 tags and 210,000 tags. I
>>have quite the incentive to make it work. Thanks.
>>
>>var objet=evt.target;
>>alert(objet.childNodes.length);
>>
>>var child = objet.firstChild;
>>i=0;
>>while(child != null){
>> childSibling = child.nextSibling;
>> alert(child.nodeType);
>> child = childSibling;
>>}
>>
>>Sean
>>
>>Alastair Fettes wrote:
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>>>You've made a fundamental mistake.
>>>
>>>1. The idea behind a defs section is to resuse (have multiple copies)
>>>of an definition.
>>>2. The idea of an ID attribute is to only have one attribute with a
>>>specific value document wide (see xs:ID type -
>>><http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#ID>).
>>>
>>>So therefore you have a fundamental mistake. The defs section and the
>>>id invalidate each other.
>>>
>>>The only thing you could (possibly) do would be to getElementById(
>>>"useFrame2" ).childNodes.foo.bar to get the tspan. Maybe, i don't
>>>guarantee it.
>>>
>>>Alastair
>>>
>>>--- In [email protected], Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>
>>>>I would like to use the use tags to save much text size as below.
>>>>Problem is grabbing and editing data with onclick events. The id
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>for my
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>>>>tspan would always be the same, but they would be used in different use
>>>>tags with unique IDs. Is there a way to isolate say the tspan1 under
>>>>useFrame2?
>>>>
>>>>SVG
>>>><defs>
>>>><g id="textFrame" cat="textBox">
>>>> <text cat="textBox" font-size="14" font="sans-serif" ><tspan
>>>>id="tspan1" cat="textBox">Text</tspan></text>
>>>> <text><tspan visibility="hidden" id="tspan2"></tspan></text>
>>>></g>
>>>></defs>
>>>><use id="useFrame" onclick="edit2(evt);" xlink:href="#textFrame"
>>>>transform="translate(10,25)"/>
>>>><use id="useFrame2" onclick="edit2(evt);" xlink:href="#textFrame"
>>>>transform="translate(10,50)"/>
>>>>
>>>>JS
>>>>function edit2(evt){
>>>> var objet=evt.target;
>>>> var tspan1 = objet.getElementById("tspan1"); //Doesn't work
>>>>}
>>>>
>>>>Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>Sean
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy."
>>>>-- Tom Waits
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