[thelist] "Unknown Runtime Error" in IE5 for my JS..grrr

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 3 12:27:22 CST 2003


--- Jeff Howden <jeff at jeffhowden.com> wrote:
> where's the language and type attributes?

Not there obviously, adding them didn't change anything.

> where are the opening and closing html comments?

If you are referring to comments within the script tag to hide JS
from older browsers, I never use them. That's wouldn't be the issue
anyway, although I realize you are chiding me for my poorly written
script - it was just a quick test page I whipped up. (Yes I know..I
should still do it right.)

> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> > window.open("addtest.html","add","resizable=yes,
> > status=yes, width=400, height=300");
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> 
> the third argument of the open() method must not have spaces in it.

Riiight..forgot about that. The window opens fine, however.

> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> > <a href="javascript: win()">launch win</a>
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> 
> naughty, naughty, naughty.

Yes yes yes, Houston, this is a TEST! I won't do it that way in
production. :)

> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> > var item = 1
> > function addItem()
> > {
> > 	target = window.opener;
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> 
> i'd be careful of the word target.  you'd be better off doing
> something like oOpener or oTarget.

This is a good point, I'll remember that.

> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> > 	body = target.document.getElementById('t1body');
> > 	body.innerHTML += addHTML;
> > 	item += 1;
> ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><
> 
> the word body has special meaning to ie.  change it to tBody or
> oT1body or something.

I didn't know that, but that didn't fix it. I changed both target and
body to oTarget and oBody. No dice still get the unknown error.

Now, when I change my target to a DIV instead of a table element -
bingo - it works. At this point I'll just use that instead since it
will serve my purposes but I can't imagine what the problem is here.

Thanks

Tom

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