initialize the variable with image tag

[manikumar_gutti]

hi, I have a problem with this code. if you understand this please send me the explantion. I dont understand the variable intialization. could u please tell me what it means. var openImage = "" function getPath(url) { lastSlash = url.lastIndexOf("/") return url.substring(0, lastSlash + 1) } regards manikanta

[Lost User]

Assuming url contains something like "dir/subdir/filename" then you will get the following:

openImage = ![](filenamedg
closeImage = .gif)

// so putting them together will create the string

I must get a clever new signature for 2011.

[parths]

var openImage = "<IMG SRC=\"" + getPath(location.href) + "dg"
var closeImage = ".gif\" HEIGHT=21 WIDTH=16>"

function getPath(url)
{
lastSlash = url.lastIndexOf("/")
return url.substring(0, lastSlash + 1)
}

The code uses location.href, so I think it's looking for a file name dg.gif in the same folder as the web-page being referenced.

Richard MacCutchan wrote:

I think (assuming my page is 'http://mywebdomain/myfolder/mypage.html') this would be:

<IMG SRC="http://mywebdomain/myfolder/dg.gif" HEIGHT=21 WIDTH=16>

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[Lost User]

You are right of course, I misread the getPath() function.

I must get a clever new signature for 2011.