Javascript text

[totig]

Sorry about the useless subject line. Say I have two buttons. Is there anyway I can use javascript, to change text displayed on the screen, depending on which button I use? If so, please let me know what it is.

[Ian Darling]

Use a span or something, and set the innerHTML:

<span id="Thing">Text</span>

<script>
function SetText(id, text)
{
document.all[id].innerHTML = text
}
</script>
<input type=button onclick="SetText('Thing', 'Hello World');>

Untested, but is more or less what you want to get started. -- Ian Darling If I was any more loopy, I'd be infinite.

[Bjoern Graf]

But don't use an IE only DOM 0 thingy (hint: document.all) if it's possible to stay compatible with most (actually all) browsers by using document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = text;.

[DFU23]

Good point about standards ... But innerHTML is not actually a W3C standard ... even though it is widely supported among most browsers, weird[^].

Wally Atkins
Newport News, VA, USA