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Feb 11.2005

Hi,
Newbie question. I have some text that could be in a <TD>, <P> or <DIV> tag and I would like to know how to access it with the ID field.

<P ID=”AdText”>This is the text</P>

…
var Text = document.getElementById(‘AdText’);

How do I access the actual text?

Text.?

Thanks,
Tim

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@FangFeb 11.2005 — var Text = document.getElementById('AdText').firstChild.data;
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@PittimannFeb 11.2005 — Hi![code=php]<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<P ID="AdText">This is the text</P>
<a href="#" onclick="alert(document.getElementById('AdText').firstChild.data)">click me</a>
</body>
</html>[/code]Cheers - Pit

Edit: Fang is too fast! ?
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@tim8wauthorFeb 11.2005 — I would like to assign new text to that field, i.e.

var Text = document.getElementById('AdText').firstChild.data;

Text = "Some New Text"


and have it update the field with the new text...

Tim
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@tim8wauthorFeb 11.2005 — I figured it out.

var Text = document.getElementById('AdText');

Text.firstChild.data = "Some New Text"

Thanks for all your help...

Tim
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