How can I find the name of the parent table from a table cell?

J

jklimek

I have something like this:

<table name="test" id="test">
<tr>
<td><input type="button" onClick="showMeParentTableName();"></td>
</tr>
</table>


How can I have my input button show me the table of it's parent table?
(eg. "test" in this case)
 
M

michael elias

try this;

<table name="test" id="test">
<tr>
<td><input type="button"
onClick="showMeParentTableName(this);"></td>
</tr>
</table>

<script>
function showMeParentTableName(oInput){
this.value =
this.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.name;
}
</script>

notice that you must go up 4 levels in the object hierarchy;

input -> cell -> row -> tablebody -> table

this only applies to IE, firefox needs one less step up.
 
M

Mick White

How can I have my input button show me the table of it's parent table?
(eg. "test" in this case)
Click to expand...
....
<td><input type="button" onClick="climbTo(this,'table')"></td>
....

<script type="text/javascript">
function climbTo(element,tagname){
var pa=element.parentNode;
while(pa.tagName.toLowerCase()!=tagname.toLowerCase()){
pa=pa.parentNode;
}
alert(pa.name)
}
</script>

Mick
 
R

RobB

I have something like this:

<table name="test" id="test">
<tr>
<td><input type="button" onClick="showMeParentTableName();"></td>
</tr>
</table>


How can I have my input button show me the table of it's parent table?
(eg. "test" in this case)
Click to expand...

"name" is not a valid attribute of an HTML table. Use id. Pass the
input object to the function.

<html>
<head>
<title>untitled</title>
<script type="text/javascript">

function getTableId(obj)
{
while (obj && !/table/i.test(obj.nodeName))
{
obj = obj.parentNode;
}
return obj.id || '';
}

</script>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1" id="test1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<input
type="button"
value="test 1"
onclick="alert(getTableId(this))">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table border="1" id="test2">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<input
type="button"
value="test 2"
onclick="alert(getTableId(this))">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>


michael said:
try this;
(snip)

function showMeParentTableName(oInput){
this.value =
this.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.name;
}
Click to expand...

'this' in the context of a global function points to *window*.

notice that you must go up 4 levels in the object hierarchy;

input -> cell -> row -> tablebody -> table

this only applies to IE, firefox needs one less step up.
Click to expand...

Any time you need to give involved instructions like the above, it's
time to use some program logic to *look for* the desired data.
 
G

Grant Wagner

Mick White said:
...
<td><input type="button" onClick="climbTo(this,'table')"></td>
...

<script type="text/javascript">
function climbTo(element,tagname){
var pa=element.parentNode;
while(pa.tagName.toLowerCase()!=tagname.toLowerCase()){
pa=pa.parentNode;
}
alert(pa.name)
}
</script>
Click to expand...

If this function can't find the tagName it's looking for, it eventually
generates an error:

<span id="blah"></span>
<script type="text/javascript">
function climbTo(element,tagname){
var pa=element.parentNode;
while(pa.tagName.toLowerCase()!=tagname.toLowerCase()){
pa=pa.parentNode;
}
alert(pa.name)
}
climbTo(document.getElementById('blah'), 'table');
</script>

Something like this might be better:

function climbTo(element, tagname) {
tagname = tagname.toLowerCase();
var parentElement;
while((element = element.parentNode) && !parentElement) {
if (element.tagName.toLowerCase() == tagname) {
parentElement = element;
}
}

// return parentElement;
if (parentElement) {
alert(parentElement.id);
}
}
 
T

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn

Grant said:
If this function can't find the tagName it's looking for, it
eventually generates an error:
[...]
Something like this might be better:

function climbTo(element, tagname) {
tagname = tagname.toLowerCase();
var parentElement;
while((element = element.parentNode) && !parentElement) {
if (element.tagName.toLowerCase() == tagname) {
parentElement = element;
}
}

// return parentElement;
if (parentElement) {
alert(parentElement.id);
}
}
Click to expand...

I'd prefer RegExps here:

function climbTo(element, tagname)
{
var rx = new RegExp(tagname, "i");
var parentElement;
while ((element = element.parentNode) && !parentElement)
{
if (element.tagName.test(rx))
{
parentElement = element;
}
}

// return parentElement;
if (parentElement)
{
alert(parentElement.id);
}
}


PointedEars
 
L

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn said:
I'd prefer RegExps here:

function climbTo(element, tagname)
{
var rx = new RegExp(tagname, "i");
Click to expand...

You should at least anchor the match, i.e.,
var rx = new RegExp("^"+tagname+"$", "i");

Otherwise tagnames that are substrings of other tag names can
give incorrect matches (which will probably not happen for valid
HTML, but might as well be safe).

....
if (element.tagName.test(rx))
{
parentElement = element;
} ....
if (parentElement)
Click to expand...

I'm not sure the original poster had thought this through enough for
it to be generalized. This code will find the outermost enclosing
element matching the tag name, not the innermost one. That might be
desired behavior in this case, but in general, I'd more likely be
needing the nearest enclosing element.

/L
 

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