[thelist] simple Javascript help

[Drew Shiel]

At 18:40 01/11/2002 +0000, Chris Marsh wrote:
>I was actually just illustrating some x-browser code I have written
>recently that seems to work okay. However, for your application,
>something along the following lines would be much better:

   (Code left unsnipped cos it's Monay morning, and it may be too much
trouble to ask people to remember stuff from way back on Friday... :) )

   Again, it's working fine in IE (6.0) but not in Netscape (4.75). I've
tried reordering the ifs for browser detection, but it doesn't seem to
work. The error is:

   JavaScript Error:
   [url],
   line 317:

   document.Banner has no properties.

Anyone able to dig this out?

>function StyleObject(id) {
>   if(document.getElementById) {
>     var s = document.getElementById(id).style;
>   }
>   else if(document.all) {
>     var s = document.all[id].style;
>   }
>   else if(document.layers) {
>     var s = document.layers[id];
>   }
>   return s;
>}
>
>function fnShowHide(param) {
>   StyleObject("Banner").visibility = "hidden";
>   StyleObject("n").visibility = "hidden";
>   StyleObject("All").visibility = "hidden";
>   StyleObject("TextLink").visibility = "hidden";
>   StyleObject("WebServices").visibility = "hidden";
>   StyleObject("Content").visibility = "hidden";
>   StyleObject(param).visibility = "visible";
>}


   Cheers,
   Drew.


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