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Changing link text.

Sep 16th, 2007

Hello,

I have a link that carrys out a DHTML function within my page, and once this link is clicked, i use the following js to change the text of the link.

In an external js file

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function exp(obj) {
  var el = document.getElementById(obj);
  el.innerHTML = 'This text has changed!';
}

The link

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<a name="a" href="javascript:exp('a');">Click here!</a>

So, once clicked, the text changes from Click here!, to This text has changed!. But i want to be able to revert to the original text, once the link is clicked again.

An example is http://demo.rockettheme.com/apr07/ The top panel 'Open Control Panel' changes and then reverts the link text on subsequent clicks.

Any help please?

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Re: Changing link text.

Sep 17th, 2007

Hi,
If you want to do this with a lot of different links and for it to work well in IE and Firefox, then you might want to change it a little... alternatively, I would use an ID attribute instead of a name... Anyhow, take a look at this:

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<html>		
	<script type="text/javascript">
		function exp(obj) {
			if(obj.oldText){
				obj.innerHTML = obj.oldText;
				obj.oldText = null;
			} else {
				obj.oldText = obj.innerHTML;
				obj.innerHTML = 'This text has changed!';
			}
		}
	</script>
	<body>
		<a href="#" onclick="javascript:exp(this);">Click here 1!</a><br/>
		<a href="#" onclick="javascript:exp(this);">Click here 2!</a><br/>
	</body>
</html>