[thelist] IE JavaScript issues?

[Thomas Nilsson]

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>When attaching the JavaScript debugger, I can see the MSIE complains
about
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>	hint = document.getElementById("hint");
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>... why on earth? Testbed environment so far is MSIE 6.0, and according
to the manual I use
>(selfhtml ...), getElementById() should be perfect for post-5.5 IE's.
Or am I wrong on that?

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(My mail server seems to have lost some recent messages, so this might
have been answered already. In that case, my apologies)
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In Internet Explorer, "hint" is itself a reference to the element,
another (older and IE only) way of accessing elements. The code in your
example is trying to assign an element as a value to itself.

It's easily fixed by using another variable name, e.g.

	elmHint = document.getElementById("hint");

/Thomas