On Sep 16, 2006, at 10:16 PM, Karl Swedberg wrote:
> works brilliantly! ( after changing the period to a semicolon in the
> line, " firstP.innerHTML = text.slice(1). " )
>
> On Sep 16, 2006, at 8:48 PM, John Resig wrote:
>
>> Maybe something like this?
>>
>> function swap_letter() {
>> var firstP = $('#main-content p:first-child')[0];
>> var text = firstP.innerHTML;
>>
>> if ( text ) {
>> firstP.innerHTML = text.slice(1).
>> $('<img />')
>> .src('/images/alphabet/' + text[0].toLowerCase() + '.gif')
>> .addClass('fancy-letter')
>> .prependTo( firstP );
>> }
>> }
>>
>> I wish it was just as easy to deal with text as it was the DOM.
>> (Hmm... a new plugin?)
>
>
Well, I guess I spoke too soon. It does work brilliantly in Firefox
and Safari, but I get an error in IE6 related to $('<img />')
Error: '0' is null or not an object
So it chops off the first letter, but doesn't add the image.
Any ideas?
Karl
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