Javascript - IE - All....

[Ecniv]

Hi,

I have the following in html:

<span class="BArea"><span class="b1"><a href="#" onClick="SwitchMenu('TestMenu',document); return false;">A Link</a></span></span>
<div class="MenuArea" Name="TestMenu">
<span class="BArea"><span class="b1"><a href="#">Menu Link</a></span></span>
<span class="BArea"><span class="b1"><a href="#">Another Link</a></span></span>
</div>

I can't seem to reference the TestMenu tag/item at all using :

document.all.item(TestMenu).visibility = true;

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?


Vince

[Rick Bull]

I don't think you need to use all (which is IE only by the way), you should just be able to do it like this:

document.TestMenu.style.visibility = 'visible';

Or if you want to use IDs:

<div id="elementId">

document.getElementById('elementId').style.visibility = 'visible';

[Ecniv]

IE6

Hi Rick,

Thanks. Still didn't work tho

I found in my Javascript book a chunk of code to print out the properties to a debug window. And I couldn't find style or visibility.

After a bit of experimentation:
function SwitchMenu (mnuName,d)
{
// listPropertyNames(mnuName.currentStyle);
debug('Class : ' + mnuName.currentStyle.visibility);
// debug(mnuName + ' ' + mnuName.innerHTML);
/* if (browser.isIE){
mnuName.style.visibility = !mnuName.style.visibility;
} else if (browser.isNN) {

}
*/
}
This seemed to print out what I needed.


So as a quick question -
Does this mean older browsers are different????


Vince

[Ecniv]

Just to let you know. The following appears to work properly in IE6... SP1....

function SwitchMenu (mnuName,d)
{
	if (mnuName.currentStyle.visibility=='hidden')
	{ 
		mnuName.style.visibility="visible";
	} else { 
		mnuName.style.visibility="hidden"; 
	}
}

I have to use current style to view and style to set or it doesn't work.

Weird??


Vince

[Rick Bull]

Originally posted by Ecniv

So as a quick question -
Does this mean older browsers are different????

Most browsers have a different implementation of JavaScript, HTML, XML etc. but if you code to standards most times it will work the same in all the modern browsers. And usually if you can get things working in Mozilla it will work in all the other browsers too, esp for CSS.