Re: FN-FORUM: Javascript problem (another one!)

date posted 8th August 2003 16:07

Thanks again...

too hot for all this thinking!

;o)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luke Perman" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Javascript problem (another one!)



hi nita

if you are gonna toggle the property of the layer, your path to it in
javascript will be:

document.all[theLayer].style.visibility

not

document.all.[theLayer]....

note - the extra '.' you have before the [

HTH
luke

On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 03:19 PM, Nita wrote:

>
> Thanks Alan, I'm considering using the visibility option - but after
> trying
> this out it seems fiddly, I keep getting an error (testing on IE6 ....
> document.all.[...] is null or not an object).
>
> I must double-check the version of netscape that's to be used, if it's
> 6
> I'll continue to play with the innerhtml as that was probably closer to
> working!
>
> Nita
> ;o)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan Sheppard" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:20 PM
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: Javascript problem (another one!)
>
>
>>
>>
>> I seem to recall that the default object for innerHTML in NS6+/IE5+ is
>> document.all and that NS uses the Class or Name tag and IE uses the
>> Id tag
>> to identify the DIV.
>>
>> For stuff that I know is only for IE5/NS6 I use
>> document.getElementById([idname]).innerHTML = "[myhtml]" which seems
>> to
>> work.
>>
>> If you need to go further back (IE4/NS4 etc) then you'll need to use
>> layer/Div/Visible methods as luke has suggested.
>>
>> Alan S
>>
>>
>> On 08 August 2003 12:18, Nita [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all, I was wondering if anyone can help with this, I'm sure it's
>>> very
>>> simple but it's causing me some pain - for the past hour and a half
>>> !!
>>>
>>> I'm trying to change the html content of a particluar CSS div when a
> user
>>> clicks on a link in another part of the document. A working (in IE6)
>>> prototype example is available at
>>> http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/~ra735/frenchvita.html (the page design
>>> is
>> also
>>> half way through so please ignore the odd bgimage). This is not
> designed
>> to
>>> be cross-browser compatible, but that's what I'm working on just
>>> now...
>>>
>>> .....And it's working fine in IE6 and although I believe that
>> "innerHTML"
>>> is supported in Netscape 6+ it's not working in NN7.1 - when I click
>>> on
>> the
>>> links it just reloads the page. I think it's something to do with
>>> how
>> I'm
>>> actually assigning the content - rather than how I'm finding the
>> div/layer,
>>> but I'm not sure what I should be doing....
>>>
>>> Any help/suggestions very much appreciated,
>>> thanks in advance
>>> Nita
>>>
>>
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