You could check if the firstChild of the element in question is a textNode.
i.e.:
var c = el.firstChild;
if(c.nodeType == 3){ //text node
el.update(...);
}
Gabriel Gilini
www.usosim.com.br
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:22 PM, lskatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I want to automatically set up abbreviation tags everywhere in my
> document, and it works great, except I am altering the innerHTML to do
> so and sometimes some crazy results happen. For instance, an input's
> value should be untouched because the value should not be value="<abbr
> title='united states of america'>USA</abbr>"
>
> I believe the way to go would be to select for textnodes but I cannot
> figure out why that wouldn't work. Anyway, any help to fix my code
> would be appreciated (I hope the indentation is preserved when I post
> this).
>
> // find and add in abbr all over the place!
> var replacing={
> 'TSV':'Tab-Separated Values',
> 'CSV':'Comma-Separated Values',
> 'STs?':'Sequence Type',
> 'CCs?':'Clonal Complex',
> 'MGIP':'Meningococcus Genome Informatics Platform',
> 'MLST':'Multilocus Sequence Typing',
> 'GIT':'Georgia Institute of Technology',
> 'CDC':'Centers for Disease Control and Prevention',
> 'OMP':'Outer Membrane Protein'
> };
> $$('.systemMessage, .body p,.body
> div,label,h1,h2,h3,h4,.menu.firefox').each(function(el){
> if(el.hasClassName('doNotDisturb')){
> return; // equivalent to a continue inside of an each loop
> }
> el.select('text').each(function(s){
> debug('textNode: '+s);
> });
> for(var k in replacing){
> var v=replacing[k];
> var find=new RegExp('\\b('+k+')\\b','g');
> // I should use something like innerContext or innerText
> instead of innerHTML
> el.update(el.innerHTML.replace(find,"<acronym title='"+v+"'>
> $1</acronym>",''));
> }
> });
>
> >
>
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