I don't believe you can create a div after the page load by just
writing the html. Try using a span instead or using a font tag.
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// Robert Rainwater
On 2/7/2001, 12:39:10 AM EST, Jeff wrote about "[Dynapi-Help] Bizarre solution to
setHTML and inline styles in NS":
> Sorry I wasn't specific enough...
> What I tried to do initially was something like this:
> function setText(text,fSize,fFamily,fColor) {
> myLayer.setHTML('<DIV STYLE="font-size:' + fSize + ';fontFamily:' +
> fFamily + ';color:' + fColor + '">' + text + '<DIV>');
> }
> Which didn't work very well. It seemed to work the first time setText
> was called, but not on any subsequent calls. It would write the text in
> the layer without the style applied to it, just whatever the browser
> defaults were. This also seemed to be partly related to how many
> instances of the widget I had created, but I can't really quantify that
> behavior at this point.
> What I ended up doing was this:
> function setText(text,fSize,fFamily,fColor) {
> myLayer.setHTML('<DIV STYLE="font-size:' + fSize + ';fontFamily:' +
> fFamily + ';color:' + fColor + '">' + text + '<DIV><DIV
> STYLE="font-size:' + fSize +
> ';fontFamily:' + fFamily + ';color:' + fColor + '">' + text + '<DIV>');
> }
> Just putting two of the exact same DIV into the text passed to setHTML.
> Why? As I said in my first post, I had some prior experience with
> Netscape ignoring styles
> placed into documents with document.write(). Specifically, if I passed
> document.write() a long text string with many individual words
> surrounded by DIV layers, it
> would always ignore the style in the first DIV it encountered. I could
> do "view-source" and see that the DIV and it's style were in the code,
> it just wouldn't render it.
> So.... by passing two identical DIVS in this case, I got it to render
> the style properly.
> Jeff Greenberg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Richard Bennett wrote:
> > passed the setHTML method TWO divs, both exactly the same. BOOM. It
> could you explain exactly what you did please?
> Cheers,
> Richard Bennett
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.richardinfo.com
> (Everything running on, and ported to the 19/12/2000 snapshot of
> DynAPI2)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeff Greenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:01 AM
> Subject: [Dynapi-Help] Bizarre solution to setHTML and inline styles
> in NS
> > Like others, I have noticed that using setHTML to write styles to
> nested
> > layers in Netscape only works sporadically. On the widget I am now
> > working on, I found that the first time I wrote the style to the
> nested
> > layer, it worked fine, but on subsequent setHTML's, it didn't.
> >
> > Well, that reminded me of a problem I had encountered while working
> on
> > something for my company. I was creating some javascript to
> highlight
> > the search terms in text returned from a query by replacing the
> terms in
> > the text with <SPAN> tags and appropriate bg colors for
> highlighting.
> > Worked fine in IE, but on Netscape, the browser always ignored the
> style
> > for the first <SPAN> tag, while rendering the others correctly.
> >
> > Now, that's not exactly in line with the above mentioned problem,
> but it
> > certainly seemed related to me, so.... in the widget I am working
> on, I
> > passed the setHTML method TWO divs, both exactly the same. BOOM. It
> > works.
> >
> > This is really a weird kind of bug, but there ya go. If anyone else
> > tries this out, let me know how it works for you.
> >
> > Jeff Greenberg
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> >
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