Sunday, February 03, 2008

How do a script find itself.

I admit it that I do not really dislike the idea of putting script tags directly inside body. That means I am not a xhtml strict person. But I can't understand that why it isn't put into the design (or implementation) to locate current script node easily.

What I'm try to solve can be described with this code snippet:

<p>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var this_node = get_this_node();

    var p = this_node.parentNode; // get the <p> node.
</script>
</p>

Turns out the only way around is to assign an element id to the script tag:

<p>
<script id='the-script' type="text/javascript">
    var this_node = document.getElementById('the-script');

    var p = this_node.parentNode; // get the <p> node.
</script>
</p>

This is only OK when everything is generated. Which is what I'm trying to do recently with my JavaScript::Writer perl module.

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