Thanks a ton. That was the exact problem. I read that day about the
"id" namespace bug in IE but then it didn't strike me.

Really appreciate it. :-)
-Sumit

On Jan 19, 2:15 pm, "T.J. Crowder" <t...@crowdersoftware.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Do you have any page-global variables with the name "issues", any page-
> global functions called "issues", any <form> elements with
> name="issues", any form *fields* with name="issues", etc.?  IE has a
> very, very strange (buggy) concept of namespaces and conflates several
> of them inappropriately into the "id" namespace.
>
> To check whether this is the problem, change the ul's id to
> "flibberdygibbet" and change your code to look for that ID. If things
> start working, you know it's a problem with "issues" being redefined
> somewhere.
>
> HTH,
> --
> T.J. Crowder
> Independent Software Consultant
> tj / crowder software / comwww.crowdersoftware.com
>
> On Jan 19, 8:35 am, Sumit <skbrnwl-...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > and surprisingly, the same document.getElementById() works on
> > individual li elements.
>
> > for example if i do document.getElementById('issue_1'), it returns me
> > an object with right childNodes.length
>
> > I guess something screwed up with IE and i would've to do something
> > else to avoid this ul issue
>
> > On Jan 19, 12:41 pm, Sumit <skbrnwl-...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > Here is the updated url with sample jshttp://pastebin.com/mb390d36
>
> > > On Jan 19, 12:40 pm, Sumit <skbrnwl-...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Sorry if this seems to be a wrong forum for this issue. I've been
> > > > using prototypejs in my project, so thought you guys may have done
> > > > some workaround this.
>
> > > > My html content looks like thishttp://pastebin.com/m2af10447
>
> > > > on "dom:loaded" event, i'm querying the dom for objects with id
> > > > "issues". On FF it just works fine; but on IE8 (i'm yet to test on
> > > > other devil builds yet), i found (on debugging) that the return
> > > > element has no children, i.e. childNodes.length is 0.
>
> > > > Any ideas/suggestions on what could be done to fix this?

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