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Javascript remove characters from string

The below code does not work but I need it to badly. The problem is something with the inline javascipt if i use this code outside of the div and just use the normal <Script type="text/javascript"> tags it works fine.

Any ideas or solutions for me, I would really appreciate it.

<div id="javascript:var str ="01/01/2009"; var newStr = str.substring(6);  
document.write( 'a' + newStr );"
 
the end result that i need outputted is just <div id="a2009"

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Göran Andersson

You have to put the Javascript in a script tag, but you can't have a script tag inside the attribute of an html tag, so you have to write all of the div tag using Javascript:

<script type="text/javascript">
var str = "01/01/2009";
var newStr = str.substring(6);
document.write('<div id="a' + newStr + '">');"
</script>

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quincydude

You cannot do it this way

one way is this

<div id="_div">
 
</div>
<script type="text/javascript"> 
var str ="01/01/2009"; var newStr = str.substring(6);  
var mydiv = document.getElementById("_div");
mydiv.id =  'a' + newStr ;
 
alert(mydiv.id);
</script>

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turtleman2009

ASKER

Thanks for your help I didn't realize things would need to change that much. Additionally I had a class that needs to be changed to. I have attached the full source, could someone please fix it for me

Could you please test your code to make sure it works I couldn't tell if they were doing what they needed to because when i viewed the source it just showed me the javascript

Thanks so much!

<div id="javascript:var str ="01/01/2009"; var newStr = str.substring(6);  
document.write( 'a' + newStr );" class="avascript:var str ="01/01/2009"; var newStr = str.substring(4);  
document.write( 'a' + newStr );">

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turtleman2009

ASKER

Perfect, this is just what i needed!

Göran Andersson

If you use FireBug in Firefox, it will show you both the script and the generated code.

Use the substr function instead of substring. It's an undocumented feature that substring can be used with only one parameter...

<script type="text/javascript">
var str = '01/01/2009';
document.write('<div id="a' + str.substr(6) + '" class="a' + str.substr(4) + '">');
</script>

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