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Yehuda Shiran January 31, 2001
Deleting DOM Substrings
Tips: January 2001

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
Doc JavaScript

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Netscape 6 is richer in functionality than Internet Explorer, as far as text manipulation is concerned. The deleteData() method is one example. Operating on text nodes, it deletes a substring from the text node data. You can specify the offset of the substring and its length. Here is its syntax:

textObj.deleteData(offset, count);

where:

  • offset is a long integer value indicating the offset of the substring, in characters, from the beginning of the string.
  • count is a long integer value indicating the number of characters to delete, starting from the specified offset.

Let's create a text node at the document level. We put the following line in the header of this tip:

txtObj = document.createTextNode("Doc JavaScript BiWeekly Columns");

and then let's delete a substring that starts at offset 15 and of length 9. Click this button to get the answer in Netscape 6 (Doc JavaScript Columns). Click in Internet Explorer 5.x and get an error message:

Here is the definition of this button:

<FORM>
<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Delete a Substring" onClick="javascript:handleClick()">
</FORM>


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