[Javascript] Layer can't be accessed in IE

Reuben D Budiardja reubendb at goshen.edu
Thu May 17 01:13:00 CDT 2001


Works great.

Thanks a lot.
Reuben D. B.

At 05:06 PM 5/17/2001 +1200, Andrew Gibson wrote:
>Something like this?
>
>    document.all["advance_search"].style.visibility = 'hidden';
>
> > Hi all,
>  > I have a page with layer, and a link to switch between one layer to the
>  > other. The link will run the javascript function that will
>  > change the layer
>  > to hide and visible. This works well with Netscape 4.7, but does
>  > not work
>  > in IE. How does one access the layer object in IE? any help will
>  > be greatly
>  > appreciated. The following is the simplified code.
>  >
>  > Thanks.
>  > Reuben D. Budiardja
>  > -------------------------------
>  >
>  > <SCRIPT>
>  > function toSimpleSearch()
>  >    {
>  >    document.layers["advance_search"].visibility = 'hidden';
>  >    document.layers["simple_search"].visibility = 'visible';
>  >    }
>  > function toAdvanceSearch()
>  >    {
>  >    document.layers["advance_search"].visibility = 'visible';
>  >    document.layers["simple_search"].visibility = 'hidden';
>  >    }
>  > </SCRIPT>
>  >
>  >
>  > <DIV id="simple_search" style="position:absolute; width:480px;
>  > height:1000px; z-index:1; left: 10px; top: 10px; visibility: visible">
>  > <A HREF="javascript:toAdvanceSearch()">Advance Search</A>
>  > <!-- HTML TABLE and FORM -->
>  > </DIV>
>  >
>  > <DIV id="advance_search" style="position:absolute; width:480px;
>  > height:1000px; z-index:1; left: 10px; top: 10px; visibility: hidden">
>  > <A HREF="javascript:toSimpleSearch()">Simple Search</A>
>  > <!-- HTML TABLE and FORM -->
>  > </DIV>
>  >
>  >
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