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

[Peter Brunone]

Thanks, Hakan.

	How accurate have you found the mozilla docs to be where Firefox
is concerned?  I'll be adding FF support to ELB in 2005, and I'd like to
make sure my supposed resource doesn't have too many dead ends.

Cheers,

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu
[mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu] On Behalf Of 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