jQuery - get content of element -- not working in FF

JavaScript
1

this line is throwing error, ONLY in Firefox…

content = $(this).html();

setting a property that has only a getter…

am trying to GET content of element…

now I thought you could GET an elem’s .html()…
.html() – jQuery API and also acc. to this…
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5487309/jquery-get-div-content

I need to replace only partial content inside element, how do I do this if I can’t GET the content of it???

thank you…

2

The obvious question is what is “this”.

In what context are you using the statement?

3 

$('ul.dropdown li.top_level:not(.selected) a').each(function(i) {
	_content = $(this).html();
	content = _content.substring(4,_content.length);
	$(this).html('Link ' + content);
		
});

as mentioned, this works fine in Safari and Chrome… (can’t test on IE)
why on earth won’t it work on FF?? this has never happened to me before…

4

Is it possible to post a sample of the html involved.

5 
<ul class="dropdown">
	<li class="top_level"><a class="first" href="#">Tab One</a>
		<ul>
			<li><a class="first" href="#">Sublink One</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Sublink Two</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Sublink Three</a></li>
		</ul>
	</li>
	<li class="top_level"><a href="#">Tab Two</a>
		<ul>
			<li><a class="first" href="#">Sublink One</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Sublink Two</a></li>
			<li><a href="#">Sublink Three</a></li>
		</ul>
	</li>
	<li class="selected top_level"><a href="#">Tab Three</a></li>
	
	<li class="top_level"><a href="#">Tab Four</a></li>
	
	<li class="top_level last"><a href="#">Tab Five</a></li>
</ul>

thank you…

6

OK I don’t understand why

but

putting a var before _content and content seems to resolve the problem.

$('ul.dropdown li.top_level:not(.selected) a').each(function(i) {
	var _content = $(this).html();
	var content = _content.substring(4,_content.length);
	$(this).html('Link ' + content);
		
});
7

Appears _content is a property of the window object

See _content property (window) JavaScript

So it is just _content that needs to have the var

8

oh my gosh… I don’t believe it… when in doubt check var names, I guess…

thank you very much…