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From: "eBob.com" <eBob....@totallybogus.com>

Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 03:53:23 GMT

Local: Thurs, May 15 2008 11:53 pm

Subject: Guidance Request (and a specific question)

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I am wondering if JavaScript is a reasonable way to solve my problem. I
have to snatch some info from a web page and build a report. Some of the
info comes from the web page and some will be supplied by the end user.
This process will be initiated by the end user clicking on a menu item in
the IE (6.0) Tools menu. I will need to access the html of the web page and
then solicit some input from the end user via some form or something
similar. I know that's rather vague but does it seem feasible?

Thus far I am trying to access the html of the page and it's been tough
going. One of the bits of info I want to snatch from a web page is a
telephone number, which, on one of the web sites, looks like this ...

<table cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' align='center'>
<tr>
<td align='center' class='class_20' >Telphone: <span class='class_23'
style="font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;">111-222-3333</span></td>
</tr>
</table>

After reading the first few chapters in a JavaScript book and looking at
some DOM reference material, I've, so far, got the following:

}

</script>

I've tried many, many things but I have been unable to find the text I am
after - in this case "Telephone:" and the telephone number, "111-222-3333".
The objects returned by getElementsByTagName don't seem to have a toString
method, which I had hoped would give me "<td ... </td>". I am currently
trying to learn something about DOM "nodes" - but I am not at all sure that
that will be the answer. So, the specific question I promised - how do I
grab the strings "Telephone:" and "111-222-3333" from the html shown above.

Thanks for whatever help, pointers, sympathy you are kind enough to provide.
Bob

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