I appreciate the follow up petrob. I am not new to Prototype, I've been using if for 3-4 years now. Yes, I have stepped through the code, have invoked setStyle from the console, etc.. to no evail. This particular issue has slipped away a bit, when it comes around again and is high priority I will put together that sample code and investigate further.
Karl.. On Friday, November 16, 2012 2:18:56 AM UTC-7, petrob wrote: > > Ok.Yes, I have made mistakes in my code that caused Prototype methods not > to work. Prototype methods do not work on unextended elements - if you lose > the reference to your element in a variable, for whatever reason-, if you > try to call element methods on non-elements, or you are calling an element > method with a typo in the argument, for instance. Have you checked all > these by placing break points in firebug at some critical points in your > code? Do you get any error messages in the console? Have you tried setting > some style properties on your element directly through the native style > declaration object? I would do this latter one first! > There are always people here to help beginners (in Prototype!) out if > they see an effort. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/prototype-scriptaculous/-/VnYxXpYW_QIJ. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en.
