As described by James here id values have to be unique in a document, so there will be only one “element” that matches, rather than multiple “elements”. That is the reason, We should not use s while selecting elements. As Id can be selected only one at a time. However, there are methods that return multiple elements which do use the plural … Read more
Option 1 A: Clearing innerHTML. This approach is simple, but might not be suitable for high-performance applications because it invokes the browser’s HTML parser (though browsers may optimize for the case where the value is an empty string). Option 1 B: Clearing textContent As above, but use .textContent. According to MDN this will be faster than innerHTML as browsers won’t invoke their HTML parsers … Read more
These solutions will work: or or even Note that the last option is a better way to go since it is unobstrusive and is considered more standard.
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Document object model.The DOM is the way Javascript sees its containing pages’ data. It is an object that includes how the HTML/XHTML/XML is formatted, as well as the browser state. A DOM element is something like a DIV, HTML, BODY element on a page. You can add classes to all of these using CSS, or interact … Read more
These solutions will work: or or even Note that the last option is a better way to go since it is unobstrusive and is considered more standard.
The DOM is organized in a tree of nodes, where each node has a value, along with a list of references to its child nodes. So element.parentNode.removeChild(element) mimics exactly what is happening internally: First you go the parent node, then remove the reference to the child node. As of DOM4, a helper function is provided to do … Read more
In my opinion the best solution uses jQuery: a.html: b.html: This method is a simple and clean solution to my problem. The jQuery .load() documentation is here.
JavaScript answer If you would like to scroll to an element smoothly with “pure JavaScript” you could do something like this: More information is here: Element.scrollIntoView() NOTE: Please see Can I use… Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc. for the latest browser support… jQuery answer If you would like to scroll to an element smoothly using jQuery then … Read more
Here’s your example in the “one” line. Update: I thought I’d update this post since it still gets quite a bit of traffic. In the comments below there’s some discussion about $(“<div>”) vs $(“<div></div>”) vs $(document.createElement(‘div’)) as a way of creating new elements, and which is “best”. I put together a small benchmark, and here … Read more