[thelist] Issues with DOM-generated radio inputs

[Lee Kowalkowski]

> From: "Randal Rust" <randalrust at gmail.com>
> 
> 1. The biggest issue is that when I click on a radio button in IE, it
> does not get checked.

For a radio button to be checkable in IE, it needs to have a name.  Sure, your alert displays the name of the radio button, however, if you do an alert of outerHTML, you'll find that name is absent.  This is a known problem with IE.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/createelement.asp

In IE, an element created with createElement can only be given a name if you declare it in the createElement parameter:

document.createElement('<input name="myRadioButton">');

Of course, this is not valid DOM and will not work in other browsers.  A cross-browser solution is offered at http://tag-strategia.com/blog/archives/2006/02/ie-dom-bugs/.

- LK


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