Retrieving attributes of a paragraph tag 1

[jamesp81]

I am currently passing the innerhtml of a paragraph tag to a function, which works well. What I also need to do is either pass the html of the paragraph tag itself, or at least programatically retrieve it's style attribute.

I did some google searching on this subject and found some code that looked like it should work, but it has done absolutely nothing but generate errors for me. Does anyone know what I need to do?

 

[cLFlaVA]

can you show the code that doesn't work? what are you trying to do?



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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

For IE only, you might try using "outerHTML" instead of "innerHTML" - but don't go that route if this needs to be cross-browser.

Failing that, you should be able to get the style attribute of the element no problem.

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[jamesp81]

Yeah, I'm trying to remain as compatible as possible.

It's not just getting the style attribute. I can do document.GetElementsByTagName('p').getAttribute('align') and it will tell me the alignment value of the paragraph, as text only. I guess what I'm wanting to do is capture the line of code that declares the paragraph itself. It would make feeding my function that works with the captured html a little simpler. It's not necessary, but it would make life a little easier, so I thought I'd check. But if outerhtml is an IE only thing, then I won't be going that route.

I know these are noob questions, but I am a Borland Delphi programmer by trade and I never really did pick up javascript.

Thanks for the help.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Why not get the innerHTML of the parent element? That way, you'll get all the HTML of the element in question.

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[caoamo]

How about enclosing the paragraph in question within a <div> tag with the ID property set. Then you can use

document.getElementById("mydiv_name").innerHTML