Is it $.get() - asynchronous call?
Maybe you try to fill textarea Before str1 get its data?
I think you should filll textarea from Success event rather than after $.get
call...
On Jan 9, 2008 6:43 AM, Jeffrey Kretz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It might be worth a shot to try jQuery functions rather than native
> functions. Something like this:
>
> $(document).ready(function() {
> $("a").click(function() {
> var coursename = $(this).attr('coursename');
> var mydata = $.get("http://localhost:8080/course/"; + coursename +
> "/", {}, function(mydata) {
> return mydata;
> });
> var str1 = mydata.responseText.substring(5,7);
> var textAreaNode=$('#test');
> textAreaNode.val(textAreaNode.val + str1);
> return false;
> });
> });
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of knairb01
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:03 PM
> To: jQuery (English)
> Subject: [jQuery] can only modify DOM via debugger
>
>
> Hi
>
> I've got a problem. I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.11, Firebug 1.0, jQuery
> 1.2.1. I have the following code in a Genshi template for a toy
> TurboGears 2.0 app:
>
>
> $(document).ready(function() {
> $("a").click(function() {
> var coursename = $(this)[0].attributes['coursename'].nodeValue;
> var mydata = $.get("http://localhost:8080/course/"; + coursename +
> "/", {}, function(mydata) {
> return mydata;
> });
> var str1 = mydata.responseText.substring(5,7);
> var textAreaNode=document.getElementById('test');
> textAreaNode.value += str1;
> return false;
> });
> });
>
>
> When the user clicks a link, the code above attempts to put text in
> the textarea. When I step through the code with Firebug, it works, but
> it doesn't when I run it without the debugger. Also, the code will
> work when I run it straight through if str1 is a hard-coded string;
> such as if the line is "var str1 = "my string";".
>
> Thank you for any help you can give.
>
>
