parentElement problem

[IndyFusion]

If I have code like this:

<OL>
  <LI>
    <FONT face=Arial color=black size=2>asdf</FONT>
  </LI>
</OL>

and I'm using the javascript:

var _currEl = objDOM.selection.createRange();
var myobj = _currEl.parentElement();
var myobj2 = myobj.parentElement();

alert(myobj2.tagName);

Why do I not get any script errors and absolutly nothing happens. If I alert the tagName of myobj it returns 'FONT'. I'm trying to get the parent of the FONT element to see if it is a list item. What am I doing wrong? I've searched everywhere and have been working on this very simple problem for way too long. I consider myself to be a pretty good javascript programmer, but I must be overseeing something or not understanding how the parentElement method works. I would appreciate ANY help. Thank you.

 

[wray]

Try

var myobj2 = myobj.parentNode;

.

The

parentElement()

method in the code would be extremely difficult to implement -- given an element, construct its parent and insert it into the DOM tree. That's probably why the DOM implementors elected to go with

appendChild()

instead.

 

[IndyFusion]

Actually, I found an easy was to do this on Googles Groups. Loop through the parents until I find an OL or BODY element. I have tested the code below and it works very well.

var objDOM = element.editor.DOM;
var _currEl = objDOM.selection.createRange();
var objParentElement = _currEl.parentElement();

if (objParentElement)
{
while(objParentElement.tagName != "BODY&quot
{
if (objParentElement.tagName == "OL&quot
{
break;
}
else
{
objParentElement = objParentElement.parentElement;
}
}
}