[temhawk]

Hey, I am stuck here. I want to remove an attribute from all links of a page, but I can't figure it out.

I found the removeAttribute function, but I don't know how to select all <a> elements in the whole page with as little code as possible.

This is what I have so far:

	<!--[if IE 6]>
		<style>
			* html #mica-container img, * html #mica-container div, * html #mica-container a {
				behavior: url(ebay/template/iepngfix.htc);
			}
		</style>
		<script type="text/javascript">
			document.getElementsByTagName('img').removeAttribute('alt');
		</script>
	<![endif]-->

I'm doing this because IE sucks and IE 6 has the stupid alt text displayed on top of the images with the HTC file to fix transparent PNGs.

Unbelievable they are making IE 8 btw, I wished they would just keep their mouths and IE development shut. The IE Blog is a real flip off, makes me sick to read about their "mission" and how they are doing so many good things to the browser to promote "Trustworthy Computing". Ok, I stop the rant now.

Help would be appreciated here! Thanks...

[TJSingleton]

Have you tried just assigning the image a blank title?

<img src="rocking-cool-animated.gif" alt="Text you don't want displayed" title="" />

This post has been edited by TJSingleton: 30 July 2008 - 09:59 AM

[temhawk]

TJSingleton, on Jul 30 2008, 04:57 PM, said:

Have you tried just assigning the image a blank title?

<img src="rocking-cool-animated.gif" alt="Text you don't want displayed" title="" />

Yeh, it doesn't work.

IE even has inconsistencies within its inconsistencies. - . -

[Catalyst]

js won't automatically iterate through the returned array like you're trying
you need to call the getAllElements and then do a for or for each loop through the array it sends back doing the remove
or use jquery of course

[temhawk]

Catalyst, on Jul 30 2008, 09:52 PM, said:

js won't automatically iterate through the returned array like you're trying
you need to call the getAllElements and then do a for or for each loop through the array it sends back doing the remove
or use jquery of course

Thanks, I get what you're saying. I'll try my luck tomorrow!

[Rob Kaper]

In jQuery:

$('a > img').removeAttr('alt');

Removes the 'alt' attributes of all images inside an anchor tag.

In regular:

var images = document.getElementsByTagName( 'img' );
for ( var i=0; i<images.length; i++ )
  images[i].removeAttribute( 'alt' );

Remove the 'alt' attribute from every image.

This post has been edited by Rob Kaper: 03 September 2008 - 07:14 AM

[temhawk]

Thank you. I passed the challenge/project on to someone else already. I still appreciate your help though!!