On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:49 PM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi gang: > > Sorry for the lame app, but the program worked for Safari (Mac and Win). > However, I did get it to work for FF and a couple of other browsers (Mac and > Win), see again: > > http://webbytedd.com/quarters > > But the critter is dead in the water for all versions of IE -- if -- I > don't figure out a way around the following single statement. > > document.getElementById(id).checked = true; > > Granted it's javascript, but all that line does is to set a checkbox > variable (id) to 'on'. Surely, $M code can do that, right? > > After reading a bunch, it seems that M$ has a better way to do things (big > surprise there, huh?) and thus does not use the document.getElementById(id) > thing that everyone else in the world uses. Instead, they use something > "better" and it's not documented well as is typical. > > Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a M$ work-a-round. > > So, what I need is: > > if (document.getElementById) > { > document.getElementById(id).checked = true; > } > else > { > <<<<< inset solution here. >>>>>> > } > > All the code has to do is to set a simple checkbox to 'on' in IE. hmm. looking at the prototype.js lib, which has the $() function to replace document.getElementById(). it supports either a dom object or a string that represents an id attribute, but key note is its 'cross-browser' and i dont see a workaround in there for ms.. function $(element) { if (arguments.length > 1) { for (var i = 0, elements = [], length = arguments.length; i < length; i++) elements.push($(arguments[i])); return elements; } if (Object.isString(element)) element = document.getElementById(element); return Element.extend(element); } ie has some primitive debugging tools, have you checked one of those to see if theres an error on the page? if you choke the js interpreter w/ a fatal error you might kill all subsequent js interpretation on the page :O ie has been the bane of my existence on more than one occasion. -nathan
