[BNM] ***AMENDMENT*** How do you create and array of textNode.data of all TD's on a page

[David Andrew]

Clear as a bell

Thanks Andy

2008/10/14 Andy Smith <andy.bnm at zambezi.org.uk>:
> 2008/10/14 David Andrew <david.andrew at gmail.com>:
>> I have a set of tables on a page and I want to make an array of the
>> child textNodes.data of each TD.
>>
>> Can it be done?
>>
>> So far I have managed to greate an array of TD's but the only property
>> I can associate with [HTMLCollection] is .length, I can't reference the
>> texNodes associated with them!?!
>
> If your HTMLCollection is called 'collection' then 'collection.length'
> is the number of TD elements and 'collection[0]', 'collection[1]', etc
> refer to the individual elements. If all the TDs only contain text, no
> child elements, then the only child node of each TD will be a text
> node that you can access with 'collection[0].firstChild' etc, and you
> can get the text content with 'collection[0].firstChild.nodeValue'
> etc.
>
> Andy
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