Re: Javascript and browser compatability -- WEB400

Walden

Once again I am most grateful to you for taking the time to help me.

1.  Session

Unfortunately, the buttons are generated by AS/400 WSG after I can put anything into the datastream. That is whay I put the defer in. I n fact, it doen'st always work with IE. Sometimes IE does the first few button name changes and then gives up. I did try putting all my scripts into a .js file, but couldn't get it to work. However, I didn't spend very long on it and I feel that it should be within my limited capabilites to get it to work this way. I imagine that this would overcome the problem. It would also cut down traffic once the file had been loaded by the browser. By no means everyone in the UK can get DSL, ISDN, which I have to use as I cannot get DSL, is expensive for many people and dialup can be very slow - I get 21.6 kps only so I don't use it. I could move but I live in a house built in 1312 and there aren't too many of those around! We should get DSL next May.

The alternative would be to somehow insert the scripts after the </PRE> but this is beyond me.

2 I will study your suggestion on name as opposed to ID and try to make the change. I fully realise that you must be correct but I don't understand the difference between name and ID. To me, a name is a form of ID, as are, for instance, reference number, and date and time stamp. However, if I can get it to work, that is all that matters.

3. It only took a minute to put in your script to get rid of the <HR> and it works, saving space. I will comment further in response to your second e-mail.

Very many thanks  again

Rob


Walden H. Leverich wrote:

Rob,
First, I can get the SESSION stuff to work, but only if I place the scripts at the end of the document. I'll bet that NS doesn't support the defer=defer option on the script tag. Move the scripts to the end.

Second, there is no element with an ID of "...BUTTON..." but there are elements with a NAME of "...BUTTON...". So you need to use the getElementsByName function. However, that function returns an array so you need to deference the first element (Note, it's a plural Elements).
document.getElementsByName(buttons2)[0].value=newText;
Seems to work in both IE and NS. I'm sure this is also the problem placing your value into AFIELD.007-01 since that's a NAME, not an ID.
As for the HR, I can get rid of it visually, but I can't get the space
back. This will get rid of it visually when placed at the start of your
JS:
var nHR = document.getElementsByTagName("HR")[0]; var nHRParent = nHR.parentNode; nHRParent.removeChild(nHR);
-Walden
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