Question

<span name = "menu">
<!-- javascript here -->
<!-- content called via ajax --> 
</span>


<span name = "content"> 
<!-- content called via ajax --> 
<!-- changed by buttons from the menu-->
</span>

Does anyone know how to display contents in the content span using ajax generated menu from the menu span? If I’m not wrong, selecting a span can only happen within the same span. Is there something like parentpage.span like mysql?

Answer 1

If I’ve understood your question correctly, you can access the span as you have it currently using document.getElementsByName("content"). However, it would probably be easier to give the span an id, then do something like this in your AJAX success function:

document.getElementById("spanID").innerHTML = ajaxResponse.responseText;