need help on innerHTML

alexhkleung · #1 (**permalink**) Dec 1st, 2007, 03:07

i've been trying to print some message in <div id="information">
these messages were stored in the var info

here's the html code

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<body><div id="hello">Hello!</div>
<div id="infromation"></div>
</body>

and the JS

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var whatisthis = window.location.href.split("/");
var last= whatisthis.length -1;
var nohtml = whatisthis[last].split(".");
last = nohtml.length -2;
var info = "<h3>Title: </h3>" + "<p> Tutorial " + nohtml[last] + "</p>";

document.getElementById("information").innerHTML = document.write(info);

at the moment nothing could be printed
if i change the last line to document.write(info);
i get the message that i want though it is not printed inside the information div

How can i get those message to be printed in specific div??
thx!

Rakuli · #2 (**permalink**) Dec 1st, 2007, 03:35

change the last line to

document.getElementById("information").innerHTML = info;

You don't need to use document.write to add to innerHTML, you just use the value you want added.

document.write tries to destroy the page and start a new one.

Cheers

alexhkleung · #3 (**permalink**) Dec 1st, 2007, 03:52

Thank you very much!

i've followed your advice and changed the last line
there's a new problem though. the ";" didn't seem to end the operation of
document.getElementById("information").innerHTML = info;

an error cascades downward from thereon and other functions after this line could not be run.
what went wrong this time?

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