If innerHTML is evil, then what's a better way change the text of a link?
- by sanj
I know innerHTML is supposedly evil, but I think it's the simplest way to change link text. For example:
<a id="mylink" href="">click me</a>
In JS you can change the text with:
document.getElementById("mylink").innerHTML = new_text;
And in Prototype/jQuery:
$("mylink").innerHTML = new_text;
works fine. Otherwise you have to replace all of the child nodes first and then add a text node. Why bother?
