Question

I need to pass the contents of an inside div to a function, for example myfun(string). I have tried using

myfun((this).children[0].innerHTML)

myfun((this).children[1].innerHTML)

myfun((this).children[0].children[0].innerHTML)

but none of those seem to work. I can’t just pass the getElementById value because the function should be generic since it would be called by php on various <a> elements (ideally I think it should include the this. keyword).

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

in your function, “this” refers to the link, and can’t be used.

a much cleaner solution would be to have myfunc know that it is going to receive an object which contains the text

javascript:

myfunc(obj){
   alert(obj.childNodes[0].nodeValue);
}

html

   <a href="#" onclick="myfunc(document.getElementByID('target'));return false;">click</a>
   <div id="target">target contents</div>