On Dec 18, 9:19 am, Morten Barklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> > I'm using MochiKit with TurboGears and am trying to find how I can get
> > a reference to the immediate parent of a node in the DOM. I see that
> > getFirstParentByTagAndClassName is available in 1.4, but I'm using
> > 1.3.?? in TurboGears. Is there a relatively easy way to get a
> > reference to it?
>
> node.parentNode would be a good choice - has nothing to do with MochiKit
> and everything to do with DOM :)
>
> > Alternatively, what I'm really trying to do is to swap out a node with
> > some new html. I've tried using the swapDOM method, but it seems like
> > I need to create a DOM node for the second parameter of the method.
> > But, I have raw HTML in a string variable that I'm trying to swap in.
> > Needless to say, I'm quite new to this. Is there a way to convert my
> > raw HTML into a DOM node tree?
>
> Well, you actually still cannot, because you will need to use innerHTML
> and then you will not only replace this immediate child node but also
> potentials siblings. But if it has no siblings, you can use:
>
> node.parentNode.innerHTML = "foo".
>
> :)
>
> --
> Morten Barklund - Head of Development - TBWA\PLAY
Thanks Morten, thats exactly what I needed. I don't know why I
couldn't find that googling for it.
-Jim
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