Topic awaiting preservation: Writing to a Table Cell using writeln..

Is writing to a table cell like this possible?

document.all.surveyTable.rows[0].cells[0].innerHTML.writeln("<TR><TD><B>Client-side--</B><BR>");


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No... only the document supports the write and writeln functions, and when called after the page has finished loading, they overwrite the entire document (and the changes appear when document.close() is called).

You have to fiddle with the innerHTML property (which is a string) directly.

Note that innerHTML is not part of the DOM spec.

so we're looking at something like

document.all.surveyTable.rows[0].cells[0].innerHTML = "<TR><TD><B>Client-side--</B><BR>";

..or maybe..

document.getElementByID('surveyTable').innerHTML = "<TR><TD><B>Client-side--</B><BR>";
?

{EDIT}
ok, I just tried it as this:
document.getObjElementByID("survey").innerHTML
and it won't work- it says "Object doesn't support this property or method"



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[This message has been edited by Petskull (edited 09-17-2002).]

Right. Except you don't need to write the <tr> or <td> tags, since they're on the outside of the TD, and you're editing the *inner* HTML.

I told ya- it didn't work...

..no matter if the 'getElementByID' points to either the table or the cell..

oh, yeah... and the reason I want the TR and TD tags is because I want to add a new cell under the old one...

{EDIT}
I figured Javascript would be nice to me if I bagged the table row and table cell tags:
document.getElementByID("dacell").innerHTML = "<B>Client-side--</B><BR>";

No dice.


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[This message has been edited by Petskull (edited 09-17-2002).]

well, I've got a sweeping declaration for all in the room:

..getElementByID and getElementById are not the same thing...

*Goes to jot that down in the FAQ*


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