Layers! Woohoo!

I made a nice happy layer:

Code:

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<div id="desc" style="position:static; z-index:1">
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Move the mouse over the icons above to
see their descriptions.</font>
</div>

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Using Javascript, how can I clear the contents of the layer and write new text to it?

IE

Code:

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<script>
function changeIt()
{
    document.all.desc.innerHTML = "<b>I am not a pretty elf</b>"
}
</script>

<div id="desc" style="position:static; z-index:1">
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Move the mouse over the icons above to
see their descriptions.</font>
</div>

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That should work.

:)

What about evil NS4?

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Originally posted by filburt1
What about evil NS4?

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I refuse to test stuff for NS, but I imagine that it won't work.

;)

In NS4 its ...

Code:

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  with(document.layers[layerID].document){
        open();
        write(txt);
        close();
    }

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..but use this function I wrote, Its cross-browser complient...

Code:

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    function writeLayer(layerID,txt){
            if(document.getElementById){
                  document.getElementById(layerID).innerHTML=txt;
            }else if(document.all){
                  document.all[layerID].innerHTML=txt;
            }else if(document.layers){
                  with(document.layers[layerID].document){
                        open();
                        write(txt);
                        close();
                  }
            }
      }

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Cheers, I'll try it out :)

Well it writes to the layer, but it doesn't clear what's in the layer already. How would I do that using your cross-browser function?

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...nkdescribe.htm
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/linkinfo.htm
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/linkinfo2.htm

Any of those help?

Why you so concerned about NS4...that's well old hat now. 6.2 is out

Still doesn't hurt to be compliant...

Hobo: Checking those out now...

OMG, it was already clearing what was in the layer, stupid me :rolleyes:

Bah, fine Chris, screw NS4 :p

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Originally posted by filburt1
Bah, fine Chris, screw NS4 :p

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amen brother