Gossamer Forum: General: Internet Technologies: Javascript Problem

Dec 29, 2005, 11:37 AM

Lee

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Dec 29, 2005, 11:37 AM

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Javascript Problem

Scenario:

I have a page with various categories, all hidden by <div>'s with a class of 'displayNone'. I have a drop-down selection box where when the user clicks on an option, the class of a specific <div> will change to 'displayBlock'.

My javascipipt is:

Code:

<script language="javascript"> 
function display_contractors(element) { 
	if (element) { 
		general_contractor.className = 'displayNone'; 
   		sub_contractor.className = 'displayNone'; 
   		carpentry.className = 'displayNone'; 
		element.className = 'displayBlock'; 
	} 
} 
</script>

element.className refuses to work. :(

If I change one of the first three to displayBlock, that category works.

If I do an "alert(element)" right before element.className, I get the appropriate element, so I know it is being passed.

What am I missing to make element.className = 'displayBlock' work?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Jan 2, 2006, 12:57 AM

Andy

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Jan 2, 2006, 12:57 AM

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Re: [Lee] Javascript Problem In reply to

Hi,

Is this a FireFox or IE issue? I know fireFox is a bit fussy in terms of using the display.visability function, as I had quite a few bugs with it a while back :(

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Feb 26, 2006, 6:50 AM

mkp

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Feb 26, 2006, 6:50 AM

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How are you actually calling it? If 'element' refers to an element (and not its name or something stupid like that), you can change its properties. If you can't, there's some problem (with your code - or, I suppose, the version of the browser you are using).

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mkp: Feb 26, 2006, 6:50 AM