Re: Changing text

by John Starkey <jstarkey(at)advancecreations.com>

 Date:  Tue, 7 Nov 2000 08:07:38 -0700 (MST)
 To:  Jeff Adelsberger <jade(at)lucidink.com>
 Cc:  hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
 In-Reply-To: 
  todo: View Thread, Original
ooops sorry. That was just a typo in this message.

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Jeff Adelsberger wrote:

> instead of:
>   if (a==0 || a=1)
> 
> try:
>   if (a==0 || a==1)
> 
> 
> At 23:51 -0700 11/6/00, John Starkey wrote:
> >I've been fighting this for two hours. Hep me, hep me???
> >
> >I'm trying to toggle a line of text between +1 and +2 using JS.
> >
> >function togLit()
> >{
> >    if (a==0 || a=1)
> >    {
> >        name.outerHTML="<font size=+1>HELLLLP</font>";
> >        a=1;
> >    }
> >    else
> >    {
> >        name.outerHTML="<font size=+2>HELLLLP</font>";
> >        a=2;
> >    }
> >}
> >
> >It's actually about 80 lines of code total, but well....
> >
> >Anyway. The second time around it won't change the outerHTML. Is there a
> >better way to do this? It seems that name.outerHTML!="name.outerHTML" once
> >you've used it. Does it become something else? Like mod.name.outerHTML or
> >something, in JS's eyes.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >John
> 
> ----------------------------------------
>                    Jeff Adelsberger
>                       Programmer
>                   Dynamic Diagrams
>                        Baltimore
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>       email:    jade(at)dynamicdiagrams.com
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