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check reference to getElementById.  It may be an IE only thing.

-----Original Message-----
From: True2ViSioN@a... [mailto:True2ViSioN@a...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:56 PM
To: javascript
Subject: [javascript] a little help


i am tring to make a drop dowmenu and i got a little problem with the
positioning x and y my code is this

<SCRIPT type=text/javascript>
var ns = (navigator.appName.indexOf('Netscape')>-1);
var ie = (navigator.appName.indexOf('Microsoft Internet Explorer')>-1);;

function showMenu(menuToShow, e)
{

var DIVElement = document.getElementById("menu1");
DIVElement.style.visibility = "visible"

   if (ns)
   {
      var srcElement = e.target;
   } 
   else
   {
      var srcElement = event.srcElement; 
   }
   //* var xPos = parseInt(srcElement.style.left);
   //* var yPos = parseInt(srcElement.style.top); 
   menuToShow.style.left = xPos + (srcElement.width)
   menuToShow.style.top = yPos;
}



</SCRIPT>

<a class="menuButton" onmouseout="" onclick="return
showMenu(document.getElementById('menu1'),event)" href="#">Button 1</a>

any ideas at what im doing wrong

NOTE:
the x and y code come from the book
begginging javascript 
//* == what the main problem is ---