Anybody care to take a crack at this?

On Dec 16, 9:46 am, DragonFlyEye <[email protected]> wrote:
> I seem to be having an issue with dynamically adding elements and
> animating their appearance on the screeen when using Scriptaculous
> with Chromium. Everything seems to work just find in IE 8 and FireFox
> 3.5.5. I am using pre-packaged Scriptaculous animations.
>
> The issue is that the new elements added to the page constitute a new
> form, but the buttons on that form are either not available at all, or
> else not available for several seconds after they appear. It seems as
> though if you attempt to access any of the buttons within that "pause
> window," everything becomes unavailable. I assume this has something
> to do with the animation process not finishing for some reason.
>
> There are two pre-packaged effects I'm using: Appear and ScrollTo. The
> issue appears to be affecting the Appear animation, because without
> using it, everything seems to be working fine.
>
> Has anyone else run into this? Code below:
>
> function wllWA_Comment(post, url) {
>         var target = document.getElementById('wall'+post);
>
>         // Do we already have a comment field? If so, bypass it:
>         var testform = document.getElementById('wallcommform');
>         if(testform == null) {
>                 // Build form elements
>                 var form = document.createElement('FORM');
>                 form.setAttribute('method', 'post');
>                 form.setAttribute('action', window.location.href);
>                 form.setAttribute('name', 'wallcommform');
>                 form.setAttribute('id', 'wallcommform');
>                 form.setAttribute('style', 'display:none');
>                 // processcom hidden field
>                 var processcom = document.createElement('INPUT');
>                 processcom.setAttribute('type', 'hidden');
>                 processcom.setAttribute('value', '1');
>                 processcom.setAttribute('name', 'processcom');
>                 // WallID hidden field
>                 var WallID = document.createElement('INPUT');
>                 WallID.setAttribute('type', 'hidden');
>                 WallID.setAttribute('value', post);
>                 WallID.setAttribute('name', 'WallID');
>                 // myaccountcommentformfield div
>                 var myaccountcommentformfield = document.createElement('DIV');
>                 myaccountcommentformfield.setAttribute('id',
> 'myaccountcommentformfield');
>                 // WallCommentText textarea form element
>                 var WallCommentText = document.createElement('TEXTAREA');
>                 WallCommentText.setAttribute('name', 'WallCommentText');
>                 WallCommentText.setAttribute('cols', '52');
>                 WallCommentText.setAttribute('rows', '3');
>                 var myaccountcenterrightbutton = 
> document.createElement('DIV');
>                 myaccountcenterrightbutton.setAttribute('id',
> 'myaccountcenterrightbutton');
>                 // Submit button
>                 var submitb = document.createElement('INPUT');
>                 submitb.setAttribute('type', 'submit');
>                 submitb.setAttribute('value', 'Comment');
>                 // Cancel button: destroys form if poster changes mind
>                 var cancelb = document.createElement('INPUT');
>                 cancelb.setAttribute('type', 'button');
>                 cancelb.setAttribute('name', 'Cancel');
>                 cancelb.setAttribute('value', 'Cancel');
>                 // Add the hideComment() function to the cancel button:
>                 addEvent(cancelb, 'click', function() { hideComment(); });
>                 // cancelb.setAttribute('onclick', 'hideComment()');
>                 var spacer = document.createElement('DIV');
>                 spacer.setAttribute('style','display: inline; width: 10px;');
>                 spacer.innerHTML = '&nbsp;';
>                 // Add an achor to the form to push the window down:
>                 var anch = document.createElement('A');
>                 anch.setAttribute('name', 'commform'+post);
>                 anch.setAttribute('id', 'commform'+post);
>
>                 // Tuck 'em in, say goodnight:
>                 myaccountcenterrightbutton.appendChild(cancelb);
>                 myaccountcenterrightbutton.appendChild(spacer);
>                 myaccountcenterrightbutton.appendChild(submitb);
>                 myaccountcommentformfield.appendChild(WallCommentText);
>                 
> myaccountcommentformfield.appendChild(myaccountcenterrightbutton);
>                 form.appendChild(anch);
>                 form.appendChild(processcom);
>                 form.appendChild(WallID);
>                 form.appendChild(myaccountcommentformfield);
>
>                 // Finally, the target div:
>                 target.appendChild(form);
>                 //window.location = '#commform'+post;
>                 // Scriptaculous effects to animate the form (Effect.appear)
>                 //     and scroll to the comment form
>                 Effect.Appear('wallcommform', { duration: 1.2 });
>                 Effect.ScrollTo('w'+post, { duration: 1.2, offset: -10 });
>         }
>
> }

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