Passing html table to different page

[vinzen]

This post is very similar to the "passing javascript variable to a different page" post of yesterday, except instead of a variable it is an html table.

I have one page that builds an html table, and I want a different page to run thru the table and process the rows.

It sounds like this is something that can't be done (according to the responses of the previous post) -- is that right?. Do I need to do all of my processing on the same page? If now, how can I reference the table without passing tons of variables? How do most developers do something like this?

Sorry for my ignorance -- extreme newbie here..

vinzen

 

[feherke]

Hi

I have one page that builds an html table

What do you mean builds ?
[ul]
[li]sets the attributes of [tt]table[/tt], [tt]tr[/tt], [tt]th[/tt], [tt]td[/tt] tags[/li]
[li]sets the content of the table cells[/li]
[li]both[/li]
[/ul]
Anyway, all of those can be handles just like any other values and be passed as in the mentioned thread. ( By the way, please use [TGML] references like [ignore]thread216-1587025[/ignore] to generate references like thread216-1587025 . ) Of course, some things can be automated using arrays. Or just pass the HTML code of the [tt]table[/tt] and its children as one huge string.

But personally I would try to do all the job in the same page.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[vinzen]

Feherke,
Thanks for the response. By "builds" I did mean both -- both the attributes and the content of the table gets created. I will probably take your advice and do it all on the same page -- I just thought it might be easier to maintain if the logic was separated a little bit.
vinzen

 

[vacunita]

You could pass the contents of innerHTML of whatever object holds the table into a variable and pass that to the other page.

This should yield everything that was done to the table. You'll get a string with the table architecture, that can then be placed into another object, or manipulated as a string if you need to.

<script>
function Get_Table_String(tblParent){
var tblPrnt=Document.getElementById(tblParent);
var tblString=tblPrnt.innerHTML;
return tblString;
}

</script>
<div id="mydiv">
<table><tr><td>First cell of first row</td><td>Second Cell</td></tr>...</table>
</div>

This will put the table code into a variable that you can then manipulate further as you need.

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