Greetings:
I am trying to develop an xhtml webpage that has a left and a right <div>; the left <div> would display the content of a different text file depending on which <input> button is pressed in a right <div>.
I tried to accomplish that by changing the "data" in an xhtml <object> dynamically, similar to changing "src" in <img>. (Is this a workable approach?) But I could not find a way to get it to work.
The code is included as follows. The webpage is divided into a left and a right <div>. The left <div>, which contains the <object>, displays the content of a text file. Upon pressing the <input> button on the right <div>, I am hoping to change the left <div> to display the content of a different text file.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" dir="ltr">
<head>
<title>Temp</title>
<style type="text/css">
#left {
float: left;
width: 400px;
height: 600px;
}
#right {
float: right;
width: 400px;
height: 600px;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function newtext() {
var text_object = document.getElementById("text_object");
text_object.data = "new_text.txt";
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="left">
<object id="text_object" data="orig_text.txt" type="text/plain" width="100%" height="100%">
</object>
</div>
<div id="right">
<p>
This is the right side.
</p>
<input type="button" onclick="newtext()" value="Please press" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
I look forward to your advice.
Thanks.
Alfred
Full Version: changing data in xhtml <object> dynamically
I recommend that you use regular links to regular (X)HTML documents, rather than JavaScript-dependent manipulation of the current page.
QUOTE(Darin McGrew @ Aug 6 2008, 12:35 PM) 
I recommend that you use regular links to regular (X)HTML documents, rather than JavaScript-dependent manipulation of the current page.
Thanks, Darin.
How can I open an <a> link in another <div> of the same window, i.e., <a href"newfile.txt" target="left">new file</a>? None of the "target" specifications seems to work. (I have posted the same question on a new thread in the forum as well.)
Alfred
QUOTE
How can I open an <a> link in another <div> of the same window, i.e., <a href"newfile.txt" target="left">new file</a>?
You can't. You can target a frame (either a regular frame or an inline frame, but frames have their own problems. Of course, the JavaScript approach has the same problems of frames, plus the extra JavaScript dependency.A better approach is to have a separate URL for each document, and to link to the other URLs.
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