[Javascript] Safari Bug in latest release

Mon Nov 15 15:30:00 CST 2004

Terry,

On Nov 15, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Terry Riegel wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
>>> var a = parent.toolbar.document.getElementById('delete');
>>> I added an alert to see if I could figure it out.
>>> alert( parent.toolbar.document );
>>> and it says "Undefined". Any ideas how I can fix this. It used to 
>>> work until I upgraded to the latest OS update whick included bug 
>>> fixes for Safari.
>>
>> Without seeing your page, nothing specific.  Choose 'Log Javascript 
>> Excpetions' from the 'Debug' menu and open Console for a more 
>> specific error message.  My first test would be to change it to 
>> 'window.parent.toolbar.document'  otherwise, all you can do is alert 
>> on each step to see where it fails i.e.
>>
>> alert( parent );
>> alert( parent.toolbar );
>> alert( parent.toolbar.document );
>>
>> If you are in a frameset you could try 
>> window.parent.frames['toolbar'];
>
> Here is what I get, still no clue how to solve it. As I see it the 
> javascript is valid, Safari has broken and I need to build a hack. 
> Does this seem like a fair assessment?
>
> alert( parent.toolbar.document );        - Undefined
> alert( parent.toolbar );                 - Nothing Displays
> alert( parent );                         - [Object Window]
>
> alert( window.parent.toolbar.document ); - Undefined
> alert( window.parent.toolbar );          - Nothing displays
> alert( window.parent );                  - [Object Window]
> alert( window );                         - [Object Window]
>
>
> This is the HTML for the parent frame
> <html>
> <title>File Manager </title>
>   <frameset rows="50,27,*" border="0" frameborder="0" border="0" 
> framespacing="0">
>    <frame SRC="toolbar.html" name="toolbar" scrolling="no" 
> marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
>    <frame SRC="path.html" name="path" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" 
> marginheight="0">
>    <frameset cols="33%,67%"  frameborder="1" border="01" 
> framespacing="4">
>     <frame SRC="browse.html" name="browse" scrolling="yes" 
> marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
>     <frame SRC="details.html" name="details" marginwidth="0" 
> marginheight="0" scrolling="yes">
>    </frameset>
>   </frameset>
>   <noframes>NO FRAMES</noframes>
> </html>
>

if you are calling this from either 'browse' or 'details' then 
parent.toolbar wouldn't exist.  Have you tried top.frames['toolbar']?

hth
Roger,

Roger Roelofs
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