Would something like this work?
function recursiveDigForText(someElement){
if(someElement.firstChild.tagName)
return someElement.innerHTML;
else
return recursiveDigForText(someElement.firstChild);
}
On Dec 10, 7:53 am, JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm quite new to MochiKit and javascript in general. For some reason,
> I can't figure out how to walk the child nodes of an element. I'm
> using version 1.3.1 of MochiKit with TurboGears.
>
> I have table cell and am trying to drill down into the cell to get at
> the text that is being displayed in it. The cell could have some SPAN
> elements and then either text or a link.
>
> In effect, I would like to do the following:
>
> ...
> while cell.hasChildren() {
> cell = cell.firstChild;
>
> }
>
> I realize that each cell could have multiple children, but in my
> specific case, it won't.
>
> I'd really appreciate any pointers to examples or good documentation.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Jim
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