<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I just wanted to let you know that it did not work as documented and that it should either be fixed or the documentation changed.<div>Since you have to know the ID to use getElementById its always possible to just use the ID.This however precludes getting an element reference by ID once and then reusing for multiple calls.</div><div><br><div><div><div>On 01 Jun 2011, at 18:33 , Nathan Gerber wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Looking over the documentation it seems that he would be correct in assuming that the results of getElementById should work for the constructor. I've never personally used this method for OpenLayers and the work around seems easy enough in that you can simply pass the id of the element in question.<div>
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--<br>Nathan Gerber<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Ricardo Bayley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ricardo.bayley@gmail.com">ricardo.bayley@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi<div><br></div><div>My understanding is that the getElementById returns the actual Element, not its ID.</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/1 Samuel M. Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smithsm@samuelsmith.org" target="_blank">smithsm@samuelsmith.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>document.getElementById("map")</div></blockquote></div><br></div>
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