Can I access the data value of the object tag via javascript?

**Stinkbug** · Mar 26th, 2002, 09:31 PM

the subject says it all

thanks in advance,
Michael

**CiberTHuG** · Mar 27th, 2002, 11:50 AM

Yes you can, but what do you mean by "object" tag?

I may be thinking of DOM3 (which isn't standard, yet), but you can access the value of anything with getElementByID, getAttribute, getChild, and stuff like that.

Good places to start is post and example of what you are trying to do, or check out developer.netscape.com, or www.w3c.org.

**Stinkbug** · Mar 27th, 2002, 12:06 PM

Originally posted by CiberTHuG
Yes you can, but what do you mean by "object" tag?

what i mean by the object tag is like this

Code:

<OBJECT ID="CantFindThisElement" DATA="blah.html" TYPE="text/html" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300>
</OBJECT>

I have been trying, and you're probably going to yell at me...

Code:

document.all.CantFindThisElement.data.value

and variants of that but havent found anything that will work.
Thanks
Michael

**JoshT** · Mar 27th, 2002, 12:23 PM

This works for IE6 and Mozilla 0.9.9:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
			
<html lang="en">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
	<title>Untitled</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function testf() {
	var vo = document.getElementById("CantFindThisElement");
	alert(vo.data);
	vo.data = "http://www.google.com/";
	alert(vo.data);
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<OBJECT ID="CantFindThisElement" DATA="blah.html" TYPE="text/html" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300>
</OBJECT>
<span onclick="testf();">CLICK</span>

</body>
</html>

**Stinkbug** · Mar 27th, 2002, 12:25 PM

thanks

michael

**CiberTHuG** · Mar 27th, 2002, 12:30 PM

Yes, I should yell at you because there is no document.all.

But as Josh showed, document.getElementById works. If you look at www.w3c.org/DOM you can look at the DOM 2 recommendations and find something that may work in IE 5.x or other older browsers.

**Stinkbug** · Mar 27th, 2002, 12:34 PM

I had the object in a 'form' so thats why i had document.all (but ASP/VB is my forté javascript/DOM is a bit new for me)
thanks again,
Michael

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