A couple thoughts:
'alt' isn't a valid attribute of span; use 'title'.
Using jQuery doesn't necessarily equate to easier.
//POJS
for (var i = 0; i < elem.length; i++) {
if(!elem[i].title){elem[i].title="";}
}
//jQuery
$('span').each(function(){
if(!this.title){this.title="";}
});
On Apr 29, 3:17 pm, Andy <adharb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to grab the text from inside a alt tag? I have a site
> that will have tons of span tags and I need to go through all of them
> searching for the alt="" attribute then grab it.
>
> I'm using some non-jQuery javascript, so I'm sure there is an easier
> way to format this than what I currently have. Any thoughts on this
> would be great.
>
> ----- html example:
>
> <span>text here</span>
> <span alt="Joe">text here</span>
> <span alt="Jim">text here</span>
> <span>text here</span>
>
> ----- Javascript.
>
> // grab all spans on page.
> var elem = window.opener.document.getElementsByTagName("span");
>
> // make sure spans have alt attribute
> for (var i = 0; i < elem.length; i++) {
> if (!!$(elem[i]).attr("printElement")) {
>
> ???? Where do I go from here?
> ..... would like to do a document.write(span element
> alt value);
>
> }
>
> }
>
> Any thoughts on this would be great.
