how to get Div values

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khalidhabib.cs
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how to get Div values

Post by khalidhabib.cs »

Hello Friends
plz help me
there is a div
which contain a list of values I want get These values in a variable
bcz in that div I m using function which take perameter


function item_list(str){
var xmlhttp;
var str2=document.getElementById('search_suggest').value;

var str=document.getElementById('search_suggest').innerHTML=str2;

alert(str);
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
{// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
else
{// code for IE6, IE5
xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
{
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200)
{
document.getElementById("itemList").innerHTML=xmlhttp.responseText;
}
}
xmlhttp.open("GET","itemList.php?q="+str,true);
xmlhttp.send();

}

<div id="search_suggest" onmousedown="item_list(this))">
</div>
plz plz help
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social_experiment
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Re: how to get Div values

Post by social_experiment »

The script below will find the text inside the first div element within a html document and then alert it; not what you require but should help you get started on a solution.

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var theDiv = document.getElementsByTagName("div")[0];
var info = theDiv.textContent;
	
alert(info);
“Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job.” - Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering
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