Output a string to an XHTML div?

[Chroniclemaster1]

I have a javascript clock for my history website. It's supposed to remind everyone that history is now... or whatever

Right now I'm writing the clock variable, strClock, to a text box.

    document.ClockForm.ClockBox.value=strClock; 
    dateDate=setTimeout("ecClock()",1000);

The text box is causing validation problems, and anyone without javascript just sees an empty text box sitting there. I'd prefer to replace it with a CSS styled div.

Can I do this? And what's the syntax? I'm guessing it has something to do with innerHtml, but I've never gotten a working script to write/remove/replace anything on a webpage that way. I'm hoping there are some trick in that direction that apply to this situation. I want something more standards compliant and more accessible.

[philm]

Something like this maybe...

<script language="JavaScript">
document.getElementById('DivExample').innerHTML="Good Afternoon";
</script>

<div id="DivExample">
Hello World
</div>

[Chroniclemaster1]

ok, after all the trouble I've had looking up this info, it doesn't seem fair that it should be this simple, but I'll let you know if this works.

[Chroniclemaster1]

I owe you big time! You just wiped out 5 separate validation errors and one major accessability issue for my webpages.

Thanks!

[felgall]

That will work fine for an HTML div but if you want it to work with XHTML instead of HTML then you will have to substitute the appropriate DOM commands with the appropriate namespace references.

[Chroniclemaster1]

This is an HTML 4 technique?? Well, !#$^@#@#$%!$%$@!

*deep breath* I guess it's back to puzzling out DOM commands from the random bits of unobtrusive code I can google. *sigh*

Thanks for the heads up. It works fine now, but this is exactly the kind of thing that will break as soon as servers actually switch over to XHTML, right?

[felgall]

XHTML does not support document.write or innerHTML or even document.createElement - you have to use document.createElementNS in order to specify which namespace you are creating the element in for XHTML. The code will then NOT work when the page is served as HTML.

JavaScript for DOM access in HTML is completely incompatible with JavaScript for DOM access in XHTML because of namespace considerations. If you are going with XHTML then you need to always serve the page that way in order for the JavaScript DOM calls to work unless you use server side processing to completely replace all the DOM calls within the JavaScript when serving as HTML.

[Chroniclemaster1]

Thanks, Stephen, you're awesome.

You guys have an answer for everything.

[Chroniclemaster1]

Fortunately for me!