Re: I am confused with result of hasChildNotes() method of DOM
Hassan Schroeder <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:18:43 -0700
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--kuSdLDmPo8yHv5GugzehEc2oNJpKuDy1XwobMaz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ms_chetan wrote: > This is the HTML code > <td id="td2"> > <tr id="td3"> > The line "a.hasChildNodes()" should return TRUE because there is TR in > that columns, but it is returning FALSE; > > WHY???? Garbage in, garbage out -- a TD can't have a TR as a child. Using invalid markup causes all kinds of interesting problems. :-) -- Hassan Schroeder ----------------------------- [email protected] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-621-3445 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. --kuSdLDmPo8yHv5GugzehEc2oNJpKuDy1XwobMaz Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> </head> <body style="background-color: #ffffff;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlStartT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="width:655px; position:relative;"> <div id="ygrp-msg" style="width: 470px; margin:0; padding:0 25px 0 0; float:left; z-index:1;"> <!--~-|**|PrettyHtmlEndT|**|-~--> <div id="ygrp-text"> <p>ms_chetan wrote:<br> <br> > This is the HTML code<br> > <td id="td2"><br> > <tr id="td3"><br> <br> > The line "a.hasChildNodes(<wbr>)" should return TRUE because there is TR in<br> > that columns, but it is returning FALSE;<br> > <br> > WHY????<br> <br> Garbage in, garbage out -- a TD can't have a TR as a child. 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