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Javascript modifying data user cannot access. How? 1

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DWAlex

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In VB, I'd put a label on a form and update its .Text value to show a number or text to the user that they can't select or update.

How do I replicate this in client-side Javascript?

This is in a page described thusly:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
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Exactly the same way, though you'll want to use the innerHTML property of the element.

Code: 
document.getElementById('mylabel').innerHTML="Text to place inside label";

There are also innerText and innerContent properties, though they aren't as cross browser friendly as innerHTML


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Slight correction, its textContent not innerContent.

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Sorry if I wasn't clear. This isn't XML, I'm looking for an HTML object I can update using client-side Javascript, which the user can see, but the user cannot edit.
 
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My answer is not XML related, its straight HTML accessed through javascript.

The element can be pretty much any element including divs, spans, and yes even labels.

HTML: 
<span id="mylabel"></span>

or

<label id="mylabel">
</label>

etc...

Pretty much any displayable html element has an innerHTML property you can set, and that can't be changed by the user directly.


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How excellent!

Not seeing the property listed in W3Schools after a short search, outside the XML pages.

But it works! Marvelous. Thanks so much, I'd have never found that myself!
 
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