[RESOLVED] object.data = location

[Merri]

<object id="object" data="http://www.vbforums.com/" type="text/html"></object>

This doesn't work:

document.getElementById('object').data = 'http://merri.net';

This doesn't work:

document.getElementById('object').setAttribute('data', 'http://merri.net');

Any idea what would work?

[Merri]

This was a bug in Firefox 2. It also didn't work very nicely in Opera 9.

Solution: create an element around the object tag and make an entire replacement of the old element by first clearing everything within the container element and then filling in a new element as required.