[Javascript] Re: How to make IE display changes to DOM tree?

[Hakan M (Backbase)]

I use these for looking up stuff.

http://www.w3schools.org/
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/js/dom/

Regards,
H


Peter Brunone wrote:
>>Does anyone have any recommendations for good, up-to-date 
>>books or sites for all this sort of thing?
> 
> 
> 	I don't know, but if you find one, pass it on.  I love the MSDN
> reference for IE, but so far I have found *nothing* comparable for the
> standards (or even just one other browser).
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu On Behalf Of Matthew Palmer
> 
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 10:33:47PM -0600, Peter Brunone wrote:
> 
>>	I tried your script and it didn't work for me either.  For what
> 
> 
> I found the problem: The IE DOM adds an extra level of object inside the
> TABLE -- TBODY.  You need to appendChild to the TBODY, not the TABLE.
> So, for instance:
> 
> row = document.createElement('TR');
> tbl = document.getElementById("DynamicTable");
> 
> // Mozilla-compatible
> tbl.appendChild(row);
> 
> // But for IE:
> tbl.childNodes.item(0).appendChild(row);
> 
> 
>>it's worth, when I want to add table rows in IE, I use the insertRow()
> 
> 
>>and insertCell() methods of the table and tr, respectively.  You can
> 
> 
> Son of a *****!  It's not even IE-specific -- it's in the W3C HTML DOM
> version 2.  Aaaargh!
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, Peter -- I've found the relevant spec now, so
> hopefully I should be able to write things a little simpler from now
> on...
> 
> Does anyone have any recommendations for good, up-to-date books or sites
> for all this sort of thing?  The W3C specs, whilst good, aren't exactly
> the most approachable sorts of things...
> 
> - Matt
> 
> 
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