Hmm, thanks for that. The clone is a deep clone so I would expect the result to include the text value.
I think I'll have to work around this in the way you suggest (or perhaps modify the idrag.js to not use a clone). Doug On 18 Oct 2006, at 18:25, Dave Methvin wrote: >> I've got an issue with using the Interface idrag.js. >> ... what I see (using the DOM inspector from the web developer >> toolbar for Firefox) is that the node tree is correctly cloned, >> except that the "value" property of the textArea is not replicated. >> Hence the cloned drag object has no text in it. ... >> >> A further wrinkle is that if the original text area contained >> initial text >> within tag (e.g. "<textarea class='text' rows="8">flibble</ >> textarea>") >> then that text (in this case "flibble") appears during the drag, even >> if I have typed new text into the textArea before dragging. >> >> Has anyone else come across this problem and found any way >> of addressing it? > > Here's what the W3C says about cloneNode: > > "Cloning an Element copies all attributes and their values, > including those > generated by the XML processor to represent defaulted attributes, > but this > method does not copy any text it contains unless it is a deep > clone, since > the text is contained in a child Text node." > http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-1950641247 > > Most people would want dynamic property values to be copied as > well, but it > looks like FF uses the defaulted attributes; is the W3C is saying > that's > compliant behavior? (The sentence isn't very clear to me.) Firefox > does > something similar when you get .innerHTML on an element, it > represents the > default attributes and not the current state. > > The only workaround I can think of is to copy the dynamic values > that got > left behind right after cloning. > > > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
