how to get value of dom node before javascript change

[johnhamman]

Hi all,
I have content on a page that is changed using someid.innerHTML = 'new content';
but what I would like to know is how to grab the original values that are hardcoded in the html even after it has been changed via javascript innerHTML?

any ideas
john

[eelixduppy]

I'm not sure that you can once that has happen. You could make a global variable at the top of your script that stores the original value in there for future reference:

var old_html = someid.innerHTML;