OT: [kind of SOLVED] need javascript/DOM help

Bassel Safadi bassel.safadi at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 23:29:09 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Mike Wright <mike.wright at mailinator.com>
wrote:

> Mike Wright wrote:
>
>> Bassel Safadi wrote:
>>
>>  On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Mike Wright wrote:
>>>
>>>  Are there any javascript/DOM gurus out there who can tell me why the
>>>> html page below does not behave as expected?
>>>>
>>>> Below is the html being tested.
>>>>
>>>> =====================
>>>>
>>>> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
>>>> <!DOCTYPE html
>>>>  PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
>>>>  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
>>>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>>>> <head><title>Javascript DOM Experiments</title></head>
>>>> <body>
>>>> <p   id='m'></p>
>>>> <a   id='a'></a>
>>>> <script type='text/javascript'><!--//
>>>> var d = document;
>>>> var m = d.getElementById('m');
>>>> var a = d.getElementById('a');
>>>>
>>>
> var a = d.getElementById('a').getAttribute('id');
> gives me the 'id'.  From there I can create the 'id' of the desired tag,
> which solves my immediate problem.
>
> I'm still curious as to why the <a> behaves differently???
>

I don't know for sure why it behaves like wise but you can find here:
http://www.w3schools.com/HTMLDOM/dom_obj_anchor.asp
a list of properties you can call by using:

var a = d.getElementById('a').Property;
or:
var a = d.getElementById('a').getAttribute('Property');
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