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dbartlett41

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i want to put some java script in a page that searches the html in the same page for a string. how can you do this? how can you store the document to a string or somehow scan through its own document looking for a certain line of html and if found store it to a variable along with everything else following it for one line??
 
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ok so what command stores it to a string so i can search it?
 
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To find all the HTML code inside the body, you can use this:

Code: 
var myCode = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].innerHTML;

And then you can search myCode however you wish to.

Hope this helps,
Dan

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<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
function init() {
var found = document.body.innerHTML.indexOf("Nested");
alert(found);
}
</script>
</head>

<body onload="init()">
<div>
<p>
Nested element!
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>


will this do the same thing ?
is your code looking for the body tag ans starting there and storeing everything after that to the variable?? and is mine storeing everything after the word nested??
 
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is your code looking for the body tag ans starting there and storeing everything after that to the variable?
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No. It does what I said - it will give you all the HTML code [!]within the body[/!]. This is not necessarily the same as all the HTML code [!]after[/!] the body.

Dan

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ok sounds good so how would i search rfor an item multiple times say the word "hi" and increase a count everytime it is found? i know how the .search("")works but is there another way besides finding the search term and shortening the string every time the term is found?? possibly a built in function i dont know about
 
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The "indexOf" function takes 2 parameters, the second of which is optional.

The first parameter is the string to search for, and the second is the position to start the search from.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[/tt]
 
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i see thanks that helps eliminate a bit of code. thanks again for you help.
 
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