replacing innerHTML in xhtml

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Denis McMahon - 28 Jul 2008 09:49 GMT

Hi

A relative has a web page that they want to work with google checkout,
so it has to be xhtml, as the google scripts require xhtml.

However, I wish to replace the text content of an id'd span.

In html 4.01, I could do this with the innerhtml property, but that's
not supported in xhtml.

Any suggestions? I can find examples that show me how to create an
additional textnode and add text to it, but not ones that show me how to
update or replace [the content of] an existing textnode.

Denis McMahon

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Martin Honnen - 28 Jul 2008 13:10 GMT

> A relative has a web page that they want to work with google checkout,
> so it has to be xhtml, as the google scripts require xhtml.
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> additional textnode and add text to it, but not ones that show me how to
> update or replace [the content of] an existing textnode.

document.getElementById('spanId').firstChild.nodeValue = 'foo';

However as long as you serve the XHTML document as text/html it should
be no problem at all to use innerHTML, and even if the XHTML is served
as application/xhtml+xml then browsers like Firefox 1.5 and later
support innerHTML for XHTML elements.

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Harlan Messinger - 28 Jul 2008 17:07 GMT

> Hi
>
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> In html 4.01, I could do this with the innerhtml property, but that's
> not supported in xhtml.

It won't be supported anyway, because Javascript is case-sensitive, and
innerhtml doesn't exist. Maybe IE has recognized this in quirks mode.

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