Still DHTML troubles in Netscape 7.1

danielh · March 19th, 2004, 01:43 AM

Greetings, and thank you to Imar for helping me with the previous post,

I am still going out of my mind to get my DHTML to function properly in a Netscape browser.

I cannot get HTML to replace the text "Loading...(Appologies: Netscape users will wait a very long time, indeed.)", which I present here as a self-explanation for my frustration.

As a test for my browser, I wrote:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<body>

<div id="NavBarDiv">Old text.</div>

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
    document.getElementById('NavBarDiv').innerHTML="He llo.";
</script>

<p>In this case, "Hello." replaces "Old text."!</p>

</body>
</html>

Successfully, "Hello" replaces "Old text".

However, innerHTML does not execute in the following block:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<body>

    <div ID="NavBarDiv" style="position: relative; left: 10px; top: 0 px;">
    Loading...(Appologies: Netscape users will wait a very long time, indeed.)
    </div>

    <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
        document.getElementByID('NavBarDiv').innerHTML = "Hello hello hello.";
    </script>
</body>
</html>

Admittedly, I am using Netscape 7.1, and I should walk before running, but I am also having trouble downloading Netscape 6.2,... and shouldn't this work?

Thank you,
Daniel Hutchins
Woodbridge, CA
http://www.finehomemadesoap.com

Imar · March 19th, 2004, 04:40 AM

Hi Daniel,

This one is pretty tricky and hard to spot. <s>IMO, it should not have worked in IE either, and instead you should have gotten an error message. </s>JavaScript is case-sensitive, so getElementById is different from getElementByID. Your second page uses ID with two capitals which<s>, unfortunately, works in IE, but not in Netscape.</s> doesn't work.

Also, AFAIK, innerHTML is not part of the official DOM recommendation, although most browsers seem to support it.....

Personally, I don't think Netscape 7 is "running" when Netscape 6 is walking. Netscape 7 just has better support for modern standards.

Cheers,

Imar

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Everyone is unique, except for me.

joefawcett · March 19th, 2004, 05:07 AM

'getElementByID' certainly doesn't work on my IE browser.
I believe innerHTML was added to Mozilla DOM by popular demand:)

--

Joe

Imar · March 19th, 2004, 05:12 AM

Whoops. I have no idea why I brought IE in. It doesn't work in IE either, and the OP didn't even mention it.

I think that "to function properly in a Netscape browser" made me think the the OP meant that it worked in IE. I also think I need more coffee.... ;)

Modified my initial post to correct this error.

Cheers,

Imar

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Everyone is unique, except for me.

danielh · March 20th, 2004, 02:26 PM

Thank you Imar and Joe,

I have fixed the Uppercase ID to Id, and it all works. I had two of them and didn't realize it. That was fun, and one of them still had JScript. That was still a little interesting as well. Anyway, these are fixed, and I am focusing on the next challenges.

thank you again, Daniel Hutchins

Thank you,
Daniel Hutchins
Woodbridge, CA
http://www.finehomemadesoap.com