I admit, I got a little sloppy when trying to figure out just what the
hell was going on. This has been bugging me for 2 days. I was trying
a variety of things / anything really to see what the issue was.
And I was premature on my last message. The error is still
happening. And nothing has been changed since. God, I love Internet
Explorer.
On May 1, 4:43 pm, Tom Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why are you using $() everywhere? Do it once, and clean up your code.
>
> var el = $(el);
> var sub = $(str+'Sub');
>
> if (el.hasClassName('bar')) {
> el.className = 'bar_open';
> .... // etc.
>
> TAG
>
> On May 1, 2007, at 2:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have a complete mystery with something happening in IE with
> > JavaScript... Firefox, Opera, Safari, Mozilla. They all work. Nothing
> > is showing up in firebug.
>
> > I'm using the prototype library, BUT, this also happens when I
> > hardcode everything document.getElementById.
>
> > The only way I can get this to work in IE is to have an Alert in the
> > TRUE block of the if/else. Does that even make sense? The Alert is
> > firing AFTER the className is set. So if the problems were arising
> > from setting the class name it would fail before getting to the alert.
>
> > There is no Exception thrown, there is no script error alert that pops
> > up or shows up in the lower left corner. IE just freezes.
>
> > I tried hacking around it using a hidden div, in hopes that would
> > replace the Alert, but that didn't work either.
>
> > The Script freezing. (I've tried several variations of this as well).
>
> > function openSummarySection(str) {
> > try {
> > var sub = str + "Sub";
> > //alert(str + "\n" + sub + "\n" + $(str).className + "\n" + $
> > (str).hasClassName('bar'));
> > // The above pops up with the correct values when not commented.
> > if ($(str).hasClassName('bar')) {
> > $(str).className = "bar_open";
> > $(sub).className = "bar_exposed";
> > // alert($(str).hasClassName('bar')); //<-- uncomment this line
> > and it works. What the christ?
> > } else {
> > $(str).className = "bar";
> > $(sub).className = "bar_hidden";
> > }
>
> > } catch(e) {
>
> > alert(e.description);
>
> > }
> > }
>
> > The HTML:
> > <div class="bar" id="BarPhysicalActivityId">
> > <div class="turndown"><ul class="postnav2"><li>
> > <a href="#" id="BarPhysicalActivityIdLink"
> > onclick="openSummarySection('BarPhysicalActivityId');return
> > false;"><img src="turn_up.gif"/></a>
> > </li></ul></div>
> > <div class="barlabel">Total Physical Activity</div>
> > <div class="bartarget">0000</div>
> > <div class="baractual">0000</div>
> > <div class="baractualmeasure3"> </div>
> > <div class="barcomplete"> </div>
> > </div>
> > <div id="BarPhysicalActivityIdSub" style="height:290px;"
> > class="bar_hidden">stuff</div>
>
> > I know this is a ridiculously simple thing to fix. But I'm completely
> > stumped.
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