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May 3rd, 2006

Whitespace in Firefox

I have been busy doing stuff with the DOM at work. One thing that continually bugs me is that Firefox seems to find a lot of whitespace and called them textnodes. Obviously when you use firstChild, lastChild, nextSibling or previousSibling and you think that what you are getting from your script should be a div or something other than a textnode this can cause some problems. Internet Explorer seems to ...

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My name is Matthew Pollard I am a web developer based in Bournemouth in the UK . I like to think of myself as a client side developer although I know ... [more]