[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 Scott Haneda Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:43 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Cc: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is this quirk of jQuery still true? This is an intersting problem

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

2009-09-03 Thread Rick Faircloth
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 r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: Thanks for the explanation, Rob. I'll have to check into setAttribute...am I correct in assuming

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

2009-09-03 Thread Ricardo
@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 r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote: Thanks for the explanation, Rob. I'll have

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

2009-09-03 Thread p_W
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) Subject: [jQuery] Re: Is this quirk of jQuery still true? On Sep 3, 1:25 pm, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com wrote

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

2009-09-03 Thread RobG
On Sep 4, 11:28 am, p_W paulwoolcoc...@gmail.com 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

[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

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

2009-09-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
(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 the attribute in the HTML unless you

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

2009-09-02 Thread RobG
On Sep 3, 6:55 am, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com 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

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

2009-09-02 Thread Rick Faircloth
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 of jQuery still true? On Sep 3, 6:55 am, Rick

[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 RobG
On Sep 3, 1:25 pm, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.com 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].