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Most of these characters are not on the standard keyboard.
Here's a successful contrivance, with comments & cautions,
a little page that works in IE6.
<HTML><HEAD><SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
function alt() {
document.all.s1.innerHTML="Current Temp: 68°F";
var txt=document.all.s1.innerText;
alert(txt);
}
</SCRIPT></HEAD>
<BODY>
<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Temperature" onClick="alt()">
<P ID="s1" STYLE="visibility:hidden"> </P>
</BODY></HTML>
comments: The innerHTML property is needed to produce the
character glyph from the entity code. If the entity string
were passed to innerText(in 1st statement) then the code
would remain literal.
This work-around depends on s1 being rendered before alt()
is called. It will not work as immediately executed code,
because element s1 would not exist yet.
cautions: Trying to style alert's display will produce error
msgs. Do not use <B>, <U>, or <I> tags in the argument
string. No Heading tags either.
Strange enough, an inline STYLE, setting font values, say,
does not give error msg, but will not execute either.
Alert ignores it.
You can use <BR> tags in the argument, which give the same
result as \n in a direct arg to alert().
In sum, you can tell alert what characters to display,
in what order, and on what line, but you cannot tell
alert HOW to display them.
hugo2, March 4, 2005
Here's a successful contrivance, with comments & cautions,
a little page that works in IE6.
<HTML><HEAD><SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
function alt() {
document.all.s1.innerHTML="Current Temp: 68°F";
var txt=document.all.s1.innerText;
alert(txt);
}
</SCRIPT></HEAD>
<BODY>
<INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Temperature" onClick="alt()">
<P ID="s1" STYLE="visibility:hidden"> </P>
</BODY></HTML>
comments: The innerHTML property is needed to produce the
character glyph from the entity code. If the entity string
were passed to innerText(in 1st statement) then the code
would remain literal.
This work-around depends on s1 being rendered before alt()
is called. It will not work as immediately executed code,
because element s1 would not exist yet.
cautions: Trying to style alert's display will produce error
msgs. Do not use <B>, <U>, or <I> tags in the argument
string. No Heading tags either.
Strange enough, an inline STYLE, setting font values, say,
does not give error msg, but will not execute either.
Alert ignores it.
You can use <BR> tags in the argument, which give the same
result as \n in a direct arg to alert().
In sum, you can tell alert what characters to display,
in what order, and on what line, but you cannot tell
alert HOW to display them.
hugo2, March 4, 2005