[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-03 Thread RobG
On Sep 4, 11:28 am, p_W wrote: > I just wanted to address setAttribute real quick...correct me if I'm > wrong, but I was under the impression that IE does not support > setAttribute(), that you had to use dot notation for IE (so > element.attribute = value instead of element.setAttribute("attribu

[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-03 Thread p_W
echnically inaccurate to speak > > of "traversing the DOM", since what is really being done is > > "traversing of the HTML elements."  Would that be a fair statement? > > > Rick > > > -----Original Message- > > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jqu

[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-03 Thread Ricardo
"traversing of the HTML elements."  Would that be a fair statement? > > Rick > > -Original Message- > From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On > > Behalf Of RobG > Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:43 AM > To: jQuery (English)

[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
-- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of RobG Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:43 AM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true? On Sep 3, 1:25 pm, "Rick Faircloth" wrote: > Thanks for the

[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
al Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Haneda Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:43 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Cc: Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true? This is an intersting problem

[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-02 Thread RobG
On Sep 3, 1:25 pm, "Rick Faircloth" wrote: > Thanks for the explanation, Rob. > > I'll have to check into setAttribute...am I correct in assuming > that "setAttribute" is a Javascript function, but not jQuery? setAttribute is a DOM Core method of the Element interface[1]. jQuery wraps a great

[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-02 Thread Scott Haneda
This is an intersting problem though. Without the ability to edit the HTML, a page refresh is going to kill any work you did. Granted, in most cases, the need for a page refresh would not matter, as the browser is going to drop the input form data anyway. One advantage would be you could

[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
semantics. So is it correct to say that a DOM contains no HTML? Rick -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of RobG Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:05 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk"

[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-02 Thread RobG
On Sep 3, 6:55 am, "Rick Faircloth" wrote: > I read that in an article dated October 17, 2008, that it was not possible > to change the actual > > HTML in the DOM There is no "HTML in the DOM". HTML is used to create a DOM. > of the "value" attribute of a text input using > $(this).val('myNe

[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true? The change in value won't appear in the HTML (in firebug for example), but the value *will* change and be submitted with the form. That's standard DOM scripting behaviour. There is no reason to change th

[jQuery] Re: Is this "quirk" of jQuery still true?

2009-09-02 Thread Ricardo
The change in value won't appear in the HTML (in firebug for example), but the value *will* change and be submitted with the form. That's standard DOM scripting behaviour. There is no reason to change the attribute in the HTML unless you want to print it somewhere. On Sep 2, 5:55 pm, "Rick Faircl