[paulanthony]

Anyone know how to get the text between a div when the div has a specific class?

such as

<div class="crazy">
Paul
</div>

I want the regex to return "Paul" I cant find any patterns that work.

[funkyprem]

don't have the code to hand, but it's getElementsByClass you need to look up then once that's created an 'object' you get the innerHTML of it.

[paulanthony]

ah.. good stuff.

[paulanthony]

sorry guys needa bump this again . getElementByClass only works with the current document, I need it to work with a variable.

[gk]

I've never use regexp in javascript so i dont know if there is a variation in the syntax but well quick and dirty...

/class="crazy".*?>([^<]*)/

should work so long as there are no html tags inside the div.

the other way you could cheat by creating a hidden div with javascript write your variable to the div then use getElementByClass... I think that could work

[stickmus]

I'd append the variable to a hidden element and use getElementByClass on it myself.

[stickmus]

Though I'd probably be using jquery so wouldn't need to use getElementByAnything anyway.

Might help if you told us what you're trying to do rather than the problem you're having, more than likely a better way to do it than regex on a variable.

[paulanthony]

fair enough. I'm trying to screenscrape using javascript. I have the page I need in a variable (the pure html contents), now I need to extract an image from between a div class...should be simple enough. Why client side? cause I want to. This hidden variable malarchy sounds rather dirty, especially after looking at getElementsbyClass as a function in its own right.

[stickmus]

Append the contents to a hidden div and use the dom to find the bit you need.