Re^3: tracking where I am in a tree structure

That was the type of thing I was trying to put together in my head, but for some reason it just wouldn't come together.

Recursive solutions always are harder to wrap your head around, they tend require more "faith" than iterative solutions, and that is not something most programmers are usually accustomed too (all relgious meanings aside of course).

As for the DIV problem, how would you suggest fixing that?

Well not having seen your output I am not sure, but I would suspect you could try putting the 'onClick' handler in the tag you are writing, rather than wrapping that tag. Although this may have the same effect when you are dealing with things like TABLE, TR, UL tags, since they too are container tags which sometimes "enclose" their descendents. The other option, and I am not sure if this would be appropriate or not, is to only wrap your leaf nodes with the "onClick" since they are likely to be text nodes and the like (although things like BR and HR will fall into that category too). Hard to really say without either having some test data, or knowing more about what you want the UI to do in the end.

-stvn

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Re^4: tracking where I am in a tree structure by agaffney (Beadle) on Jul 23, 2004 at 03:26 UTC
The purpose of this whole thing is to build an online HTML editor with simple support for TABLEs, Ps, SPANs, Bs, As, and a few pre-defined CSS styles. After the HTML is parsed, it is regenerated from the tree for viewing in a preview window. I have the DIVs because I want a way to highlight the various elements of the page. When the user clicks (or double clicks) inside one of these DIVs, it will refresh the page with another parameter ($nodeid) that tells which element in the page they selected. I am doing all of this because my boss (uses Frontpage and loves the <BLINK> tag) insists on being able to edit content on our new HTML::Mason based site.	[reply]
Re^5: tracking where I am in a tree structure by stvn (Monsignor) on Jul 23, 2004 at 04:07 UTC
Good Luck, I can't even begin to think of what would be the best way to go about all that. It has also been a while since I was really up to date with the whole DHTML thing. Best advice I can give, is don't listen to me, and 1) try things out to see what works, 2) find a good DHTML/Javascript mailing-list/board like this one to bounce things off of. -stvn	[reply]
Re^4: tracking where I am in a tree structure by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Jul 23, 2004 at 01:38 UTC
Recursive solutions always are harder to wrap your head around, they tend require more "faith" than iterative solutions, and that is not something most programmers are usually accustomed too (all relgious meanings aside of course). Piffle. Recursion is neither magical nor obscure, especially when dealing with recursive data structures (like parse trees). `-- F o x t r o t U n i f o r m Found a typo in this node? /msg me % man 3 strfry`	[reply]
Re^5: tracking where I am in a tree structure by stvn (Monsignor) on Jul 23, 2004 at 03:50 UTC
Piffle. Recursion is neither magical nor obscure, especially when dealing with recursive data structures (like parse trees). I never said it was magical or obscure. Only that for a programmer trained to think iteratively (as most are), the concept of recursion can sometimes take some getting used to. Clearly to you it is nothing magical, as you understand it quite well (as evidenced by many of your recent posts, and particulary your ones on Haskell). But to some, it is a concept that does not sit as easily. -stvn	[reply]