JavaScript... -sigh-

[intellix]

Why is it JavaScript is never as simple as it seems? :S
Hate it

Struggling to get this to work... even though im kinda confused as to why its not... reading up and stuff and this SEEMS like it should work

window.onload = function() {
var links = document.getElementById('resources').getElementsByTagName('li').getElementsByTagName('a');
var n = links.length;
for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
if (links.title && links.title != '') {
// add the title to anchor innerhtml
links.innerHTML += '<span>'+links.title+'</span>';
links.title = ''; // remove the title
}
}
}

html structure is:

<div class="navigation">
<ul id="resources">
<li><a href="#" title="whatever">some text</a></li>
</ul>


Thanks, as usual, java is driving me nuts over the most simplest things

 

[intellix]

only thing that SEEMS to work is getElementsByTagName('a') but then obviously it applies it to EVERY link in the document :/

 

[intellix]

i've tried changing the ID of one link to res1, then doing this instead:

var links = document.getElementById('res1');

But it doesn't seem to grab it.. aggh I hate Javascript... and when im doing Java I hate that too... nothing seems to work the way you think it would, and everything seems to be DIFFERENT to anything else... iiiiiis it: .text or .carrot?!!?! mauhauha in java we decided on .carrot

stupid example but there you go

 

[intellix]

doesn't work.... basically the only way to get JavaScript working is to throw my laptop out of the window. Jobs a good un

 

[intellix]

The problem is that this bit:
document.getElementById('resources').getElementsByTagName('li')
returns an array of 'li' nodes.
so

var s = document.getElementById('resources').getElementsByTagName('li')[B][COLOR="Red"][0][/COLOR][/B].getElementsByTagName('a');
var n = s.length;

works.

obviously you have to loop around the 'li' nodes array to get all the 'a' nodes from each one but that shouldn't be too hard.

Simon

I tried just haing by ID('res1') and making one of the ID as res1 for one single link... didn't work whatsoever, tried your code but im not really sure how I have to implement it anyways... think im gonna leave it anyways... Thanks for your help

 

[intellix]

Thank you so much, the code you gave me worked great... I really need to start from scratch learning JavaScript (same with Java for uni) than jump into the stuff like this cause I can never figure out WHY something doesn't work...

I want to kiss you guys for your help