I've been searching this whole forum, msdn and specialised tutorials and I can't find the answer for VBA:
How can I make the getElementById work in an access VBA module where the id to find is dynamic?
Let's see the html code:
<DIV id=rowToolTipContainer>
<DIV class=contactsCard id=resultsTooltip1122286Contents style="DISPLAY: none">
<TABLE class="shadow-box tooltip">
<TBODY>
And how I'm trying to find it:
Dim ResultDIV As HTMLDivElement
Set ResultDIV = HTMLDoc.getElementById("resultsTooltip*")
Let me say the html returned has a different id (the numbers change) depending on each result so the id for each DIV is always:
id=resultsTooltipxxxxxxxContents where xxxxxxx are always different numbers
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Try something like this one:
Dim ContainerDiv As HTMLDivElement, ResultDIV As HTMLDivElement
Set ContainerDiv = HTMLDoc.getElementById("rowToolTipContainer")
For Each ResultDIV In ContainerDiv.GetElementsByTagName("div")
If ResultDIV.ID Like "resultsTooltip*Contents" Then
'' What do you want to do here?
Exit For
End If
Next
Identify the closest parent tag that always contains the ID (manually, by looking at your HTML).
Enumerate all descendant <div>s of that tag, testing their ID property with Like.
Related
<div id="content-body-14269002-17290547">
<p>...</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>...</p>
<p>...</p>
</div>
I Need To Select Everything in id = "content-body*"
content-body changes on every Page, May Be Need to Use Wildcards ?
Probably xpath search for divs where the id contains specific text Duplicate
Anyways,
For IDs
//div[contains(#id,"content-body")]//p #to Select all Paragraphs
//div[contains(#id,"content-body")]//p//text() # To Select all text in Paragraphs
For Classes
//*[contains(#class,"content-body")//p
//div[contains(#class,"content-body")]//p//text()
For Class in Class
//*[contains(#class,"content-body") and contains(#class,"another-sub-content-body")]//p//text()
Hope it Helps !!!
//div[contains(#id, "content-body")]
This means content-body in content-body-14269002-17290547
Normally, this will works.
Better:
//div[starts-with(#id, "content-body")]
This means the id attribute's value is started with content-body
I want the user to be able to select the contents of a element by clicking it once. The code would look like this:
<div onclick="this.xyz()">...</div>
The question is: what method goes where I wrote xyz? I've searched for things like "DOM select object," but the answer is a needle hidden in a haystack of irrelevant hits (or not).
Basically you'd want:
<div onclick="var contents = this.innerText;">foo bar</div>
which would set contents equal to foo bar. Of course, this isn't exactly cross-platform compatible. Firefox expects .textContent instead of .innerText. If you're not opposed to using jquery, then
<div onclick="var contents = $(this).text()">foo bar</div>
would do just as well and be cross-platform.
I use SHtml.jsonForm in myjsonclass.show to wrap a jsonform to the HTML page with the following command:
<div id="form" class="lift:myjsonclass.show">
It works fine.
The SHtml.jsonForm method defines a random id for the form tag, I wonder if there is a solution to get that id and use it in the HTML. It will make easier for example to apply form validators in Javascript.
I have solved that by accessing a known element of the form and asking for its parent in javascript: element.parent(); So I am able to get id of the form with: element.attr('id').
Why is the following code NOT working without id or name attribute specified for the anchor element?
<html>
<body>
First link
<p>innerHTML of the first anchor:
<script>document.write(document.anchors[0].innerHTML);</script>
</p>
</body>
</html>
But if I add an id (or name) attribute, like that:
<a id="first" href="#">First link</a>
It starts to work.
Why is id or name attribute so important? I don't refer to it in my javascript code. I don't use "getElementById" or anything, but it still wants an id to be specified.
P.S. I tested only in IE7 (not the best browser, but I don't have access to anything better at the moment, and it can't stop me from learning :)
UPDATE:
Thanks to Raynos who gave me an idea of HTMLCollection in his answer, I've gotten a deeper understanding of what's going on here, by searching the web.
When we use document.anchors collection, we're actually referring to a collection of a elements with the name attribute that makes an a element behave as an anchor, and not (only) as a link.
We don't have to specify the name attribute if we want to refer to a elements as links. In this case we just need to use a different instance of HTMLCollection object which is document.links.
So the original code will work without name attribute if we modify it to:
document.write(document.links[0].innerHTML);
What a nice feeling of enlightenment! :)
WHATWG says:
The anchors attribute must return an HTMLCollection rooted at the Document node, whose filter matches only a elements with name attributes.
the document.anchors collection needs <a> elements with a name attribute.
IE is known to have bugs where it treats id's and name's as the "same" thing. So that would probably explain why it works for <a> elements with an id attribute.
As an aside, document.write and .innerHTML are evil.
Why don't you use this:
document.getElementsByTagName('a')[0].innerHTML
I have a php page which contains a large amount of HTML in it. One part of the HTML has a div in the following format:
<div class="reusable-block" id="xyzabcwy">there is a lot of HTML here which may be in any format</div>
Keep in mind, this div is contained within the DOM at any location however, I do know the div ID programatically.
I was originally finding this string within my database, since a record of it exists there however, the format between the data in the database record and the page are sometimes different due to whitespace but other than the white space, the strings are exactly the same. The problem is, I don't know what format the whitespace is in.
It seems it is better to write a regular expression to find this div and replace it entirely.
I could use a hand though.
Other ideas are also welcome.
Many thanks!
If you are using jQuery,
$('#xyzabcwy').html(new_data);
if not
document.getElementById('xyzabcwy').innerHTML = new_data;
otherwise, here is a PHP example.
Edit: PHP
<?php
$id = "xyzabcwy";
$html = "<div id=\"" . $id . "\">this is html</div>";
$newdata = "test";
echo preg_replace("#<div[^>]*id=\"{$id}\".*?</div>#si",$newdata,$html);
?>
This should output
<div id="123">test</div>
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