Why do you use the escape quotations in this function? The element being passed is the name of an image.

the code could be



and still do the samething

Ok, but why does that work too?

out("some_element_name");

is equal to

document.some_element_name.src = "nav_some_element_name_out.giv";

heres what the interperter sees

"document." + element + ".src = \"nav_" + element + "_out.gif\""
"document.some_element_name" + ".src = \"nav_" + element + "_out.gif\""
"document.some_element_name.src = \"nav_" + element + "_out.gif\""
"document.some_element_name.src = \"nav_some_element_name" + "_out.gif\""
"document.some_element_name.src = \"nav_some_element_name_out.gif\""
document.some_element_name.src = "nav_some_element_name_out.gif"

It dynamically changes an image named <element>
Not the best way to do it though.

So, why is the interpreter getting rid of the quotation marks around the plus signs first?

How would you do it, Prototype?

There are no quotation marks around the plus signs :)

Ok, why are the plus signs done away with first? ;)

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Original post by Chris41411 How would you do it, Prototype?

I would at least preload the images into an array, and use the more compliant GetElementById to retrieve the image object. But my JScript is kinda rusty though.