-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Ballard [mailto:aballard@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 30 October 2008 05:15 PM To: arno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: PHP - General Subject: Re: DOCTYPE, javascript and Firefox The pragmatic approach says that you've already fixed it: just leave the DOCTYPE out. :-) I'm not sure what yours should be, but based on the snippet of HTML you posted, yours should not be HTML 4.01. Since you are closing the <input/> tags, you should probably be using one of the XHTML DOCTYPEs (as long as the rest of your markup is consistent). I'm not sure that would "fix" your issue, though. As for why your page does that, I'm not really sure. If you leave the DOCTYPE off the the browser will select the DOCTYPE it wants to use. Perhaps since you declared the document to be HTML 4.01 Transitional, Firefox is applying JavaScript rules where you can't refer to an element in script simply using its ID attribute. You usually have to use something like: document.getElementById('autostartlabel').className = 'disable'; Andrew -- Hi Andrew and Ross, thanks a lot - using getElementById sorted it out. As for the DOCTYPE the scripts aren't consistent enough yet to use one of the XHTML DOCTYPEs, but it's work in progress. Maybe starting that process caused the problem because I remember testing this successfully in FF, the reason I persevered so long was I knew it once worked. As a matter of interest is there a way to see what DOCTYPE the browser chose to use? The browser is obviously smarter than I am in selecting DOCTYPEs so maybe I should follow its cue. Thanks to everyone else who kindly responded as well, I really appreciate it. Cheers Arno -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
