[thelist] [JS]: document.write vs innerHTML

[Ben Henick]

--- "J.J.SOLARI" <jjsolari at pobox.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I came across a weird behaviour of IE5 Mac edition regarding some
> javascript
> code ; here is a test page demonstrating the problem:
...
> <div id="palette">
> </div>
...
> if (ie)
> {
> document.all.palette.innerHTML = tmp ;
...
> It should build two rows of twelve colored cells.
> Netscape 4.08 does what is expected, whereas IE5 just displays the
> last row, and I'm told that it works fine on Win versions.
...
> P.S.: This page is online at: <http://www.yoyodesign.org/tmp/cb.html>

Perhaps I'm being too simplistic to be any help, but what is the chance
that the absence of content in the named DIV is making the browser
bitchy?

It's the sort of error I'd expect from Netscape not IE, but stranger
things HAVE happened...

Anybody who remembers the multiple-body-tag trick, or the Infamous
Daylight Savings Bug, or has actually tried to write stylesheets for
IE3, will understand the spirit in which I make my suggestion.



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