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Sep 20.2006

Hi, I have a simple function which takes some HTML bolded text and a table cell ID (both passed from PHP). On mouseover the text is displayed in the specified cell. The only problem is that the text is raw HTML and the bold tags show instead of bolding the text. How do I get the text to be displayed in its intended form? I have had at a bash using innerHTML but I can’t really code in Javascript. Here’s my code so far: –

function display(text,cellID){
var getText = document.getElementById(cellID);
getText.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
}

Thanks

Solaar

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@lijosSep 20.2006 — Did you try this?

[code=php]
function display(text,cellID) {
document.getElementById(cellID).innerHTML += text;
}
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@SolaarauthorSep 20.2006 — I have now, thanks very much. I don't suppose there's a limit on the length of the string the function will accept. If 'text' is too long nothing shows.
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@lijosSep 21.2006 — It depends on the browser, but any modern browser should handle atleast 2000 chars.
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