@ Balazs Endresz:
You're right, and Ricardobeat has given the good answer ;)
Even if i'm working with Firebug I didn't notice this behavior between
value and text.
@Remy:
yeah! I couldn't manage to put xml in jsbin. I followed the ajax video
without no success.
Any view where i pasted the xml (JS or HTML views) it was outputted
without tags. The only manner i found was to paste html encoded
caracters in the html view. So that the output was fine (at screen)
( I do paste that in html view: <xml> <set
id="textfield">value for test 1</set> </
xml> )
Is there a simple way to use xml at jsbin ? like you do with json in
the ajax video ? Thanx for the jsbin app, it kills all !!!!!
@ Ricardo:
val() is working fine in this case, thanx. Nice analysis of the FF
behavior with textarea text/value attributes ;)
what i didn't mention is that the element to be updated could be any
element in the page (textarea, div or p ... )
The first code I wrote in dev was including a test case for the
element tagname before to update it, and i was right then! (But when i
saw that text() was working with textarea too (mainly in IE), i
deleted this test case using text() for updating any element content).
Here's the test case I was using :
var viewer = $("[id='" + update[0] + "']");
var viewertag = viewer.attr("tagName").toLowerCase()
if (viewertag == "textarea" || viewertag == "input") {
viewer.val( update[1] );//input detected
}
else {
viewer.text( update[1] );//other than inputs
}
Would there be a method to update any element without any test case ?
Thank you all for you help. I now understand better why it does not
always work in FF (IE and SAFARI 3(win32) where working fine with the
code) !
