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Javascript access to html text

Started by Symphonic Dec 30, 2008 at 1:00 PM 3 replies 1.2k views

Original Post

Dec 30, 2008 at 1:00 PM

So I have this HTML table which contains a slew of these:


<td id="id_0_0">
   
      ???
   
</td>

where ??? is a textual representation of an integer. What I would like to do is get read-only access to that text in &#106avascript. Is this possible?

LockeCole

Dec 30, 2008 at 1:07 PM

I remember the name innerhtml and a quick google seems to confirm it.

http://www.google.com/search?q=&#106avascript+inner+html

Symphonic

Dec 30, 2008 at 3:42 PM

Thankyou, my own digging turned up the same thing, using jsquery or getelementbyid() it is possible to use the element's innerHTML prop to access the underlying text.

document.body.innerHTML is a more top-level brutish way to get what I want.

Feralrath

Dec 30, 2008 at 4:09 PM

Yes, document.getElementById('myid').innerHTML will work just fine.

taby

Dec 31, 2008 at 9:47 AM

Quote:
Original post by Feralrath
Yes, document.getElementById('myid').innerHTML will work just fine.

That is totally a neat trick. I didn't realize you could do that. Now I gotta come up with a use for it. :) Rate++.

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