[SOLVED] Changing a static peice of text

[eddy556]

I have an Ajax script which changes the the text in a text area box and it works perfectly.  In order to do this is use the following line:

 

      document.getElementById('outputText').value = httpObject.responseText;

 

I would also like to change a piece of text (not within a text area) in the same way.  How would I do this.  I have tried using my initiative and doing something like:

 

<p id="text">This is the text to be changed</p>

 

Where I am using the id attribute of P in order to access it by the javascript above (getElementById('text') but this does not work.

 

Many thanks

[irvieto]

following your example...

document.getElementById('text').innerHTML = httpObject.responseText;

[eddy556]

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for