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From	Steve Day
To	Me
Subject	Adding html and plain text to the current document
Date	7 June 2005 17:02

Hello can you help me with an annoying problem.

I am trying to create a page that contains Javascript Functions. I have the
functions create a list of buttons with the "document.write" phrase, however
when i use this phrase in a function the browser creates a new document
without the javascript functions in the head section. Therefore i cant
reference them.

Is there any way of using javascript to write html to the current document
without clearing the current html and code it contains....?

Thans so much for any help you can give

Steve Day

From	Me
To	Steve Day
Subject	Re: Adding html and plain text to the current document
Date	7 July 2005 17:14

Steve,

> "document.write" - the browser creates a new document

This is intentional. After the page completes loading, document.write will
assume you want to write a new document. (This is discussed on
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/writing )

> Is there any way of using javascript to write html to the current
> document without clearing the current html and code it contains....?

Yes, this is what the DOM does. I have covered how to do this in the DOM
section of my tutorial.

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/domintroduction
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/dombasics

Hope this helps

Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/

From	Steve Day
To	Me
Subject	Re: Adding html and plain text to the current document
Date	7 June 2005 21:35

Tarquin
Thanks for your response, i have read exstensively your website and found it
wonderfuly helpful...i can change the text of a node but it shows HTML tags
as text and doesnt format the text...so i guess i have some more reading to
do...

Thanks again
Steve

Steve Day

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