[thelist] help needed with javascript rollovers/IE error message

Alisa Aydin aaydin at nyc.rr.com
Sat Jan 20 14:48:31 CST 2001


Apologies to all in advance for both my beginner's ignorance and any 
list-etiquette faux pas I make here:

I'm working on a little site for a friend's non-profit.  It's up in test
form at
http://www.styleworks.org/test_for_Jan19/default.htm
(A few of the pages are haven't been created yet, so some of the links don't
work ("clients", "city agencies", etc.))

Last night we were discussing copy changes over the phone.  Whenever she
tried to click on the "our sponsors" link on the left-hand nav bar she would
get an error message that read something like: "Javascript error, line 117,
document sponsors not an object"  She was looking at the pages in IE (but
couldn't tell me which version) on a PC.  I had looked at the pages on a PC
yesterday in both IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.7 and didn't encounter this problem.
I'm on a Mac now, and don't get that message in either IE 4.5 or Netscape
4.6.  (After rebooting, she also got the error message when trying to click
on the "our volunteers" button.)

The code for that nav bar was based on some from the 3rd Edition of
"JavaScript for the World Wide Web" Visual Quick Start Guide.  I keep
looking at it to see if I can find any difference between those parts that
relate to the "our sponsors" button and the others.  I tried counting 117
lines down from the top of a few of the "source" windows in IE (should I be
including the blank lines in this count?), but I can't seem to find anything
different, no matter how hard I squint.

Any advice (on this problem or anything else you notice) would be
tremendously appreciated.

Many thanks,
Alisa




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