JavaScript: innerHTML removes closing slash!
When I use innerHTML, <br /> becomes <br>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Demo</title>
</head>
<div id="v">
<p>The / in these <br/> tags does not show when innerHTML is used. <br /> The slash vanishes!</p>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
alert(document.getElementById('v').innerHTML);
</script>
</body>
</html>
wdosanjos
I think that happens because 'innerHTML' provides the HTML content of the control not the XHTML content. In HTML, the BR tag is only <BR>.
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Is there a good way to get THE ACTUAL CONTENT?
If it's a valid XHTML document, you could try using AJAX to request the page and use responseXML to find the elements you were interested in.
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Using AJAX for this seems like using a cannon to shoot a fly.
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