[Wolves] javascript and dom question

[Steve Parkes]

Steve Parkes wrote:

> Stuart Langridge wrote:
>
>> On 5/17/05, Steve Parkes <sparkes at westmids.biz> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I have a textnode and I want to find all the newline characters and do
>>> an createElement('b') on them it's been about 5 years since I wrote 
>>> more
>>> than 5 lines of javascript at a time ;-)
>>>   
>>
>>
>> You want to do what? Why would you want to do that?
>>  
>>
> I want to display breaks in the text ;-)  It's actully your nice title 
> code.
>
more specifically I want to do what I think this line should do ;-)

tnt = document.createTextNode(nicetitle.replace(/\n/g, "<br />"));

I think I want to split nicetitle along the newlines and build the node 
from the component parts with <br /> between them.

I really need to spend some time with the dom.  Last time I did any 
scripts of substance it was all javascript 1.1 and busted innerHTML 
model around here.

sparkes