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div tag image replacement 1

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Kirogl

Kirogl

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Mar 24, 2004
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Hi I'm trying to get Javascript to replace the first character of a div tag with a image (i.e. image of letter a if the first letter is a, image of letter b if the first letter is b etc.) and then replace the first text with the same text less the first character.

however this script it just tells me an object is required (somewhere around the body tag), so i've no idea what the problem is!

Does anyone have any idea what I've done wrong?

Code: 
<html>
<head>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function SFLIR(id_name){ 
var divs=document.getElementsByTagName('div') 
for (var i=0;i<divs.length;i++){ 
	if( div[i].id.indexOf(id_name)===0 ) {
		bg_letter = div[i].innerHTML.charAt(0);
		if (bg_letter != "<") {
			div[i].style.backgroundImage.src = "images\lettersets\"+bg_letter+".gif";
			div[i].style.backgroundImage.alt = bg_letter;
			inht = div[i].style.innerHTML;
			div[i].style.innerHTML = inht.subscring(1);
			}
		} 
	} 
} 
->
</script>

</head>
<body onLoad="SFLIR('main')">

Shouldn't change<br/>
<div id="main">Should change</div><br/>
<div>Shouldn't change</div><br/>

</body></html>
 
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Hi

At first look this two lines looks really strange, replace them :
Code: 
div[i].style.backgroundImage = "url(images/lettersets/"+bg_letter+".gif)";
div[i].alt = bg_letter;

Feherke.
 
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Hi

At second look it is horrible.
Code: 
<html>
<head>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function SFLIR(id_name)
{
  var divs=document.getElementsByTagName('div')
  for (var i=0;i<divs.length;i++){
    if ( div[red]s[/red][i].id.indexOf(id_name)===0 ) {
      bg_letter = div[red]s[/red][i].innerHTML.charAt(0);
      if (bg_letter != "<") {
        div[red]s[/red][i].style.backgroundImage[s][red].src[/red][/s] = "[red]url([/red]images[red]/[/red]lettersets[red]/[/red]"+bg_letter+".gif[red])[/red]";
        div[red]s[/red][i].[s][red]style.backgroundImage.[/red][/s][red]title[/red] = bg_letter;
        inht = div[red]s[/red][i].[s][red]style[/red][/s].innerHTML;
        div[red]s[/red][i].[s][red]style.[/red][/s]innerHTML = inht.subs[red]t[/red]ring(1);
      }
    }
  }
}
[red]-[/red]->
</script>

</head>
<body onLoad="SFLIR('main')">

Shouldn't change<br/>
<div id="main">Should change</div><br/>
<div>Shouldn't change</div><br/>

</body></html>

Feherke.
 
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yes, it is :)

I noticed the var names (div/divs) while I was amending the html.

Thanks your first hint was enogth to get the letters to appear (after I fixed my silly mistakes)

Thanks.

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Fixed!

Thanks feherke for your help. I guess the lession here is don't write javascript when you've only had 3 hrs sleep.

Below is the working code should anyone find be searching for this.

Code: 
<html>
<head>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function SFLIR(id_tag){ 
var divs=document.getElementsByTagName('div') 
for (var i=0;i<divs.length;i++){ 
		if (divs[i].id == id_tag) {
			bg_letter = divs[i].innerHTML.charAt(0);
			img_insert = "<img src=images/lettersets/"+bg_letter+".gif style=float:left; />"
			inht = divs[i].innerHTML;
			inht2 = inht.substring(1);
			divs[i].innerHTML = img_insert+inht2;
			}
		}
}

/-->

</script>

</head>
<body onLoad="SFLIR('main')">

Shouldn't change<br/>
<div id="main">Should change</div><br/>
some random text<br/>
some random text<br/>
some random text<br/>
some random text<br/>
<div>Shouldn't change</div><br/>

</body></html>

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Hi

One more thing :
Code: 
/[red]/[/red]-->
Not a big deal, but my FireFox objected.

Ok, another thing. Based on your markup the page is intended to be XHTML. So the script code should be enclosed between [tt]<![CDATA[[/tt] .. [tt]]]>[/tt] instead of [tt]<!--[/tt] .. [tt]-->[/tt] . See How do I use the <script> tag? by BabyJeffy.

Feherke.
 
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