Doh!

[moojoo]

Ok so I got things a working, DB connectivity, generating the bingo cards by number of entries in the databse etc... One question.. How would one select the middle cell or in this case after generation 4th from top (Due to Bingo heading), 3rd from left and bottom after the table is drawn? I have been googling away for this and nothing so far. Everything is working perfectly as it should but I need to change the content of this middle cell to "Free + an employee ID" from the database which in itself is simple, its selecting the cell to do it. and then simply doing a foo.innerText = "blah"..

[ukgeoff]

If it's always going to be the same cell, why don't you just check where you are in the loop generation process and add the necessary.

In pseudo form:

if outer loop = 4 and inner loop = 3 add ID.

[moojoo]

I thought about something like that but I wasn't quite sure of the best method or approach. That makes complete sense! I dislike using launguages I really don't know, but then again ya learn. Ok I am going to fiddle around and see if I can't get that working.

[moojoo]

So say I have:

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for (r = 0; r < NROWS; r++) {
        var tr = tbl.insertRow();
        for (c = 0; c < NROWS; c++) {
            var tc = tr.insertCell();
            tc.id = "Cell" + r + c;
            // The number of nodes left
            nNodes = root.childNodes.length;

I would need something like:

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// sets free box
            if (r = 4 and c = 3) {
            tc.id = "freebox";
            }

[ukgeoff]

Looks good to me;-)

[moojoo]

Bleh, so this is whats happening heh:

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// sets free box
            if (r = 4 and c = 3) {
            tc.id = "freebox";
            tc.innerText = monthnumber + "/" + monthday + "/" + year;
            }

is generating an error on line 18

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var tr = tbl.insertRow();

saying it is expecting a ')' and when I run the script I get an object expected error on line 0.. When I remove the free box setting js it all works fine. So the question is, is it syntax error or placement?

Edit:

I did some searching and now I am just getting an Object Expected Error. Apparently this is some issue with IE's js handling.. I am mixing VB and JS but not together. Well except for JS outputting a vbscript db result.. Shoot.

[ukgeoff]

Been away so only just got back to looking at your post. You may have fixed it by now but...

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if (r = 4 and c = 3)

In this code, you want '==' to make a comparison. A sigle'=' is an assignment. Also you might want to put brackets around each of the comparisons to make sure the 'and' is not taking precedence.

[moojoo]

Got it.

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// Set the class of the free box to .freebox
            if (tc.className == "Cell22") {
            tc.className = "freebox";
            }
            
            // Set the properties for the middle/free cell
            if (tc.className == "freebox") {
            tc.innerText = "FREE " + month + "/" + day + "/" + year;
            }

Works fantastic. Thanks for your help.