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Use innerText in DHTML to Change Text on the Fly

Use innerText in DHTML to Change Text on the Fly

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With Dynamic HTML and Internet Explorer 4 and 5 you can update the text on the page after the page is rendered. The trick is to use the ID attribute as a unique identifier for the tag. As the user rolls the cursor over the text, the onmouseover event replaces the text between the opening and closing tags. Here’s a short example:

 
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You can restore the original text by including it as part of the onmouseout event.

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