'object' element in the DOM

'object' element in the DOM

Hi.

I want to replace an 'object' element in my document with script,
however I find that it disappears from the DOM tree if it has to
fallback to its children because it cannot handle the given type.

For example:

  <html>
    <head><title>test</title></head>
    <body id="b">
      <script>
        function f() {
          for (var n = document.getElementById('b').firstChild;
               n != null;
               n = n.nextSibling) {
            window.alert(n.nodeName);
          }
        }
      </script>
      <object data="x" type="x" width="200" height="200">
        didn't work
      </object>
      <button onclick="f()">test</button>
    </body>
  </html>

Clicking the button finds the 'script' and 'button' elements but not the
'object' element, which is strange because it still should be in the
document tree.  I need to write some script that manipulates the object
elements in the document, regardless of whether they fail to render
their content.  How can I do this?

Thanks,

Cameron

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date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:00:44 +1100 author: Cameron McCormack See signature for e-mail address:;