Grab and Post Image Alt Tag

[Howdy_McGee]

I'm trying to write a script that 'OnClick' will grab the image Alt Text and post the contents of the image alt inside a div element that is else where on the page. Much like a caption, but I'm hoping a lot simpler. I tried using the whole innerHTML thing but i'm not very familiar with javascript. Can anyone help me?

<img src="kitten.jpg" alt="This Cats Name Is Mitten!" OnClick="PostAlt()" />

[jeffman]

Images don't have innerHTML. Try "PostAlt(this.alt)"

[ShadowMage]

Images don't have innerHTML. Try "PostAlt(this.alt)"

That is, assuming that the PostAlt function takes a string for an argument. Can you show us what the PostAlt function looks like?

[Howdy_McGee]

wait like this?

var image = document.getElementsByTagName('img');document.getElementById('altHere').text = img.PostAlt(this.alt);

again, clearly I don't know much javascript so i'm not sure how to use PostAlt :/

[jeffman]

Thanks for pointing that out. The function I was thinking of would look something like this:

function PostAlt(str) {   var myDiv = document.getElementById("something");   myDiv.innerHTML = str;}

The advantage here is that the function would work with any string you passed to it, so you could have unlimited numbers of image tags all written more or less the same way, and you'd get the same results for all of them.