As said in the original post: It is the $() functions itsself which
fails. $() calls Element.extent, and IE6 complains about Element to
not support the method request.

On 27 Nov. 2009, 17:01, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> You will get this error in IE when the object you are trying to  
> manipulate in Prototype has not been "extended" yet[1]. You can work  
> around this by using the $ function to get and extend the object  
> before attempting to manipulate it.
>
> var elm = $(elm);
>
> if (!!elm){
>         //your code here
>
> }
>
> Walter
>
> 1.http://api.prototypejs.org/dom/element.html#extend-class_method
>
> On Nov 26, 2009, at 5:52 AM, Carsten wrote:
>
> >> Are you certain that the object has actually been created in the DOM
> >> when you call this?
>
> > "Element" is the Element-object from the prototype library. The
> > library has been included and other objects like Ajax are present.
>
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