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Your welcome! &nbsp;I'm glad I could assist. &nbsp;Thanks for the grade, the points and the fun question.<br />
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bol
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Your welcome!  I'm glad I could assist.  Thanks for the grade, the points and the fun question.

bol

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Hi,<br />
I'm pretty new to Javascript but I do have a programming background.<br />
I have a script from a book (on Ajax) that doesn't work, which isn't much of a surprise since half the scripts in this books source code don't work (Ajax for Dummies).<br />
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Anyway, I'm printing out variables using an alert statement but when I get to the statement below the message I get back is &quot;[objectHTMLCollection]&quot;. &nbsp;Can someone tell me how I can print out the contents of that object?<br />
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options = xmlDocument.getElementsByT<wbr />agName(&quot;op<wbr />tion&quot;);<br />
alert(options);<br />
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Thanks!<br />
<br />
M<br />

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Hi,
I'm pretty new to Javascript but I do have a programming background.
I have a script from a book (on Ajax) that doesn't work, which isn't much of a surprise since half the scripts in this books source code don't work (Ajax for Dummies).

Anyway, I'm printing out variables using an alert statement but when I get to the statement below the message I get back is "[objectHTMLCollection]".  Can someone tell me how I can print out the contents of that object?

-- Snip --
options = xmlDocument.getElementsByTagName("option");
alert(options);
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Thanks!

M


How to print out variables in Javascript for debugging

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