[Javascript] Need help with Script

[Lee Underwood]

Wow! Thanks. I never thought about that. It works now.

Lee


On 1/21/2006 10:23 PM, J. Lester Novros II wrote:
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>Dear Lee,
>
>Lee Underwood wrote:
>>I am trying to figure out why this script is not working in 
>>Internet Explorer.
>
>I use m$' pityful script debugger when testing pages in xPloder. On 
>your page it threw an error about expecting an object in the flwg line:
>
>   if (description.firstChild.nodeType == 3) {
>       description.firstChild.nodeValue = text;
>   }
>
>An inserted alert showed me that 'description' was an object but had 
>no id. When I subsequently alerted 'description.nodeName' it said 'META'.
>
>Huh?!?
>
>Then it dawned on me [I tackled this problem before] that xPloder is 
>stupid enuff not to differ between 'name' and 'id' attribute 
>namespaces. In this case, there is a <meta name="description" ... > 
>tag in your document which, obviously, has no childnodes, hence the error.
>
>Moral of the story: choose your id's wisely if you want your scripts 
>to work in xPloder. In your case, rename your P element's id to 
>something else than 'description' [or remove the meta tag] and you're off.
>
>l8R lES
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