Martin, This approach works well on a static document but I get curious behaviour on Firefox when dynamically loading the foreign elements using XMLHttpRequest...it only seems to work if there is a blank element of that type already in the document - e.g. <xyz:fruitBats id=""/>
I could understand if I had declared the element using #REQUIRED, but it is only #IMPLIED If I take the blank element out of the SVG document, firefox reports that the element I'm searching for has no properties, even though I can see those properties in the DOM inspector. I first suspected that I had to reference the NS in the getElementByIdNS() statement - but FF doesn't seem to like that at all...and only returns anything if I leave the NS reference null and have a blank instance of an element in the .svg Any ideas?? Alan --- In [email protected], "Martin Honnen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "krugerboy1971" > <alan.smithy@> wrote: > > > Firefox won't let me use GetElementById on this sort of element: > > > > <xyz:fruitBats id="bat1"..../> > > getElementById is a method of the document and I am sure Firefox lets > you use document.getElementById('bat1') just fine, but to have it find > the element above (and not return null) you need to have the internal > subset of the DTD define > <!ATTLIST xyz:fruitBats id ID #IMPLIED> > That should do for Firefox and for Opera 9. > > Opera 9 also supports the generic xml:id e.g. > <xyz:fruitBats xml:id="bat1"/> > not requiring any DTD declaration to have document.getElementById find > such elements. > ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
