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  Dynamic Content with DOM-2 (Part I of II)
Subject:   The quick brown fox...
Date:   2005-04-27 13:16:48
From:   normalforce
Response to: The quick brown fox...

Don't you just love it when you post a question and then figure it out through a random chain of events about 5 minutes later...


The problem was, after changing the content the first time, the newSpan was never assigned a value of the old id. Thus when you run the function again,


var spanElm = document.getElementById("ex3Span");


returns a null because ex3Span doesn't exist anymore. To get around that, just assign newSpan the old id, as so:


newSpan.id = spanElm.id;


Now it works like a charm!

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