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Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell

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Il 07/14/2015 09:36 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn ha scritto:

<...> (many corrections on details, [down to the point to argue about 
the name I assigned to a variable - come on! :-)]
and some interesting suggestions:
I was in a hurry, I wrote that Q&D piece of code just to post the 
message, hoping to find some answers when back again to my PC.

>
>>      table.rows[f].cells[g].onclick=function(){
>>       var fc=this.firstChild;
>>       if (fc) {
>>        alert(fc.type+" - "+fc.nodeName+" - "+fc.value+" - "+fc.nodeType)
>>       }
>>      }
>
> Note that creating functions in a loop is error-prone because a function
> creates a closure; JSHint can warn you about this.
>
> The loop and creating functions in a loop is even unnecessary here because
> the “click” event bubbles: you can listen to it at the row (“tr”), row group
> (“thead” or “tbody” element), or the table (“table” element) instead,
> requiring much less event listeners (down to only *one* at the table),
> therefore much less memory (each function definition creates an object).
> You are creating table.rows.length * table.rows[0].cells.length Function
> instances here, assuming that each row of the table has the same number of
> cells as the first one.
>
> The “target” or “srcElement” property of the event object would then yield
> the reference to the event target.  There is only one caveat: If the event
> target is a descendent of a cell, you need to walk up the DOM tree until you
> find the cell.  But because the “click” event bubbles, you need to do that
> in any case, and you neglected it here.
>
>    ….onclick = function (e) {
>      var target = e.target || window.event.srcElement;
>
>      if (!target) return true;
>
>      while (target && target.tagName && target.tagName.toLowerCase() != "td")
>      {
>        target = target.parentNode;
>      }
>
>      if (target && target.tagName)
>      {
>        /* work with target */
>      }
>    };
>
>>     }
>>    }
>> }

Interesting. Thanks, I did not even think about event.target or 
window.event.srcElement.

>
> Among other things, “document.forms["…"].elements["datatype"]”.
>
> The question is, why are you adding a “click” event listener on the cell in
> the first place?` And why do you think you need to refer to the form control
> in this complicated way?
>

You have been very precise and useful, but I must say that the fragments 
I posted are just a couple of tries I made to understand why I was not 
able to get the <select> values. To be honest, I started with an example 
I found on the net, in which new rows are created reading the HTML 
existing table, and just putting in the cells after insertCell() the 
innerHTML read from the existing cells. I assumed that createElement() 
and appendChild() is a more precise and compatible way to do it and 
discovered that this way I can access the <select> values. Thanks to 
Christoph Becker I realized that the formatting spaces are present in 
the DOM so I was not reading the <select> control at all.

The onclick() is only a quick way to display via alert() the fetched 
values, it is nothing more than a (for internal use only) test.

Now I am still trying to get your first answer, the one about properties 
via prototype chain and via object reference - a bit obscure to me. :-(

Dan
-- 
"Everybody should pay taxes with a smile"
I tried, but they want money.

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Retrieve a select from a table cell "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-14 14:24 +0200
  Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-07-14 14:45 +0200
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-14 16:54 +0200
      Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-07-14 23:20 +0200
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 09:11 +0200
  Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-14 21:36 +0200
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-14 21:41 +0200
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 09:10 +0200
      Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-15 09:46 +0200
        Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-07-15 10:03 +0200
          Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2015-07-15 06:33 -0700
        Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 10:17 +0200
          Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-15 11:47 +0200
            Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 13:11 +0200
              Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-18 18:04 +0200
  Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-07-14 16:44 -0300
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-07-14 17:03 -0300
      Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-14 22:07 +0200
        Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-07-14 17:28 -0300
          Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-15 00:23 +0200
    Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-14 22:02 +0200

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