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code doesn’t work on Firefox 0.8, please help

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Jan 11.2005

Hello I have the following element in my site:

[code]
<span id=”elem”>Hello</span>
[/code]

I added the following JavaScript code that should modify the text in the span, but it doesn’t work in Firefox 0.8
It does work in Firefox 1.0

[code]
var obj = document.getElementById(‘elem’);
var nodes = obj.childNodes[0];
nodes.nodeValue = ‘test’;
[/code]

Does anyone know what the problem is?

I would also appreciate a URL to some knowledge base where I can read more about the DOM of Firefox (0.8 + 1.0)

regards

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@FangJan 12.2005 — var obj = document.getElementById('elem');
obj.firstChild.data='test';

Your code works in FF 0.7, maybe just a glitch in FF 0.8. I don't have FF 0.8 to test the problem.

EDIT FF 0.8 works correctly, [i]nodeValue[/i] is read only! http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/core.html#ID-F68D080

[URL=http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/]Gecko DOM Reference[/URL]
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@KorJan 13.2005 — var obj = document.getElementById('elem');

while(obj.hasChildNodes()){

obj.removeChild(obj.childNodes[0])

}

obj.appendChild(document.createTextNode('test'))
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