Ok, I'll do that. Thanks for the reply.
On Jan 12, 9:48 am, david <david.brill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi shellster,
>
> I think what you do is good.
> If you think it could be usefull for others, create a prototype plug-
> in that will does that and send it to everybody with scripteka.
>
> --
> david
>
> On 6 jan, 19:02, shellster <shellsterd...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > First let me say that prototype js is a godsend. I use it on every
> > project I do now.
>
> > I repeatedly find myself having to do something like this:
>
> > var firstDiv = new Element('div', {
> > id: 'theID',
> > className: 'theClassName'
> > }).update(content);
>
> > var replacement = new Element('div').update(firstDiv);
>
> > oldElement = htmlText.replace(RegExp.escape(searchString),
> > replacement.innerHTML);
>
> > Or sometimes I want to find how long the text of the new element will
> > be. In both cases I end up having to create a wrapper div, then call
> > innerHTML on the new div to get the text content of the original
> > element. What I would like to see (unless I don't know of a feature
> > that already exists) would be a replication of IE's outerHTML
> > feature. Maybe call the method htmlText(). Using firstDiv from
> > above, it would work like this:
>
> > firstDiv.htmlText() or Element.htmlText(firstDiv) would return "<div
> > id=\"theID" class=\"theClassName\">[content]</div>"
>
> > The closest feature I can find to this is Element.inspect(), but it
> > only returns (in this example): "<div id=\"theID" class=\"theClassName
> > \">"
>
> > Thanks, in advance.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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