Re: Referencing Images with JavaScript in HTML4

by Andrew McFarland <aamcf(at)aamcf.co.uk>

Date:	Wed, 15 May 2002 16:04:27 +0100
To:	<hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	nrc
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At 10:06 15/05/2002 -0400, Martin Clifford wrote:
>Do we have to use ID tags now?  document.images['mrHappy'].src = 
>'images/mrHappy.gif';?

Yes  - although referencing an image by ID doesn't work with Netscape 4.

IMO, the `best' way to do it (if you don't have to worry about NS4) is as 
follows:

if (document.getElementById && document.getElementById('foo')) {
         document.getElementById('foo').src = bar
}

Andrew

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