problems manipulating child element

<div id="Agt18961">
<span id="AgtName">Tonto Fodder</span>
<span id="Comm">23.56</span>
</div>


I have the following being output by a db. I am trying to access the "Comm" and add or subtract whatever values are passed from the parent form.

var iNewComm = document.getElementById(strOldAgent);
var myTest = iNewComm.childNodes[1].nodeValue;
alert(myTest);



strOldAgent is a value passed from the parent form. Whenver I run this script the alert box is blank. Any ideas? This is for ie5 and up.

That should be childNodes[0].nodeValue;

now in my alert box I get a "Null"

It works for me, how doy you pass 'strOldAgent'? Maybe you don't get the right id passed, perhaps you trace it's value with alert(strOldAgent) at the start of your function.

I guess it helps when you refresh the window. Thanks for the help.