Re: Global variable not remembering value

On Jan 21, 6:08*pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:

webmasterATflymagnetic.com wrote:
I would be grateful for some pointers to the code below. I want to
click the button and it toggles the showing of text. The state is
tracked in the variable det. Whilst the function itself works, I have
two questions:

* Why does it not 'stick' with the new value (ie det = true), but keep
reverting to the false value?

I am a javascript novice, but surely you need to tell the function
toggleDetail that det is GLOBAL in scope?

And how would you do that?

In C that would be *'external', from memory, in PHP its 'global'..

In C I would declare det as a 'static' variable INSIDE the function..

There's probably a way to do that in Java shit too.

For someone new to JavaScript, you certainly have formed some strong
opinions about it.

* Why does it work even more poorly in IE? *The line with
getElementById() in particular seems not to rewrite the HTML.

I THINK I met this befre, SPANS can't have ID's - only DIVS can or
something. Or is it that they cant have inerHTML.

No and no.

Now you know why I call it Javashit. Its never the same syntax twice..

Of course, host objects have nothing to do with the language.
JavaScript syntax is very well defined.