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Re: Wanting to use getElementById()

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In comp.lang.javascript message <timstreater-095030.23590509122011@news.
individual.net>, Fri, 9 Dec 2011 23:59:05, Tim Streater
<timstreater@greenbee.net> posted:

>Mmmm, nice idea. I do have a variable number of these tables, but that
>wouldn't create an insurmountable problem. More of a problem is that I
>would then have id conflicts - each table has a similar set of row-
>id's. I expect I could get around this too at the expense of a certain
>amount of recoding.
>
>Is there anything wrong (or dangerous) about what I'm considering, that
>you know of?

My <http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/holidays.htm> has a number of tables
constructed by writing their computed HTML.  The tables are all
essentially the same, but constructed in accordance with a data object
which gives the number of rows and their content.  One column can be re-
computed by altering its heading cell.  As I recall, or at least as I
would do it now, all addressing of elements within a table is relative
to that table, not global.

If I were starting again, I'd build the table by DOM methods, as in js-
props.htm or more accurately inc-prop.js.

IMHO, getElementById is something like GO TO (GOTO?) in FORTRAN; one
should use it as little as practical.

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Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-09 18:06 +0000
  Re: Wanting to use getElementById() "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-09 20:04 +0000
    Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-09 23:59 +0000
      Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2011-12-10 06:43 +0000
        Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-10 09:55 +0000
        Re: Wanting to use getElementById() "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-10 10:12 +0000
          Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-10 12:16 +0000
            Re: Wanting to use getElementById() "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-10 15:09 +0000
              Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-10 17:10 +0000
                Re: Wanting to use getElementById() "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-10 18:17 +0000
                Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-10 18:51 +0000
                Re: Wanting to use getElementById() "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-10 19:59 +0000
            Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-12-10 21:22 +0000
              Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-11 00:52 +0100
      Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Dr J R Stockton <reply1150@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-13 19:52 +0000
        Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-13 17:29 -0800
          Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Dr J R Stockton <reply1150@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-15 21:51 +0000
            Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-15 15:53 -0800

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