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Old Pedant · 01-30-2013, 08:48 PM

Sunfighter: You are, of course, correct. But it was my impression that the 25 items on that other page changed from time to time, presumably because of other external actions. So I assumed that the goal was to pick 3 of the *current* <li>s, from the live page.

RndMe's method is, as usual with his code, quite clever and correct. But I don't know, for example, how many browser support createDocumentFragment().

My own method would be a lot simpler and would work with browsers as far back as MSIE 5.

But I'm not going to bother to show it unless the OP says he wants it.

01-30-2013, 08:48 PM	PM User \| #11
Old Pedant Supreme Master coder! Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 23,187 Thanks: 59 Thanked 3,995 Times in 3,964 Posts	Sunfighter: You are, of course, correct. But it was my impression that the 25 items on that other page changed from time to time, presumably because of other external actions. So I assumed that the goal was to pick 3 of the current <li>s, from the live page. RndMe's method is, as usual with his code, quite clever and correct. But I don't know, for example, how many browser support createDocumentFragment(). My own method would be a lot simpler and would work with browsers as far back as MSIE 5. But I'm not going to bother to show it unless the OP says he wants it. __________________ An optimist sees the glass as half full. A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. A realist drinks it no matter how much there is.