jscript alternatives

m3rajk posted this at 15:22 — 5th July 2004.

Joined: Jul 2003

my gfx person wants javascript roll overs. this causes a slight issue in submit buttons for forms. which gets complicated by the fact that M$IE seems to be responding to getElementById in some cases (something it shouldnt do since it doesnt have it).

http://www.findyourdesire.com/forums.php?tid=225 talks about the login issue and this thread: http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?t=23434 gave me a work around. the problem is i dont think internet error works with the document.all[] array. because reworking all the fucntions to use the fix gave something like:

function getElem(id) { return (document.getElementById ? document.getElementById(id) : document.all[id]); } // fix for internet error
function selopt(choice,bttn){ // mouseover highlight
  var i; 
  for(i=0;((i<bttn.length)&&(bttn[i]!=choice));i++);
  if(i==bttn.length){ return false; } else{ i*=2; getElem(choice).src=rolls[i].src; return true; }
}
function deselopt(choice,bttn){ // mouseout return to load state
  var i; 
  for(i=0;((i<bttn.length)&&(bttn[i]!=choice));i++);
  if(i==bttn.length){ return false; } else{ i*=2; i++; getElem(choice).src=rolls[i].src; return true; }
}
function subfrm(choice){ getElem(choice).submit(); return true; } // submit a form
function subsel(form,hfld,hval,hfld2,hval2){ // submit a form and set a hidden variable
  getElem(hfld).value=hval;
  getElem(hfld2).value=hval2;
  getElem(form).submit();
  return true;
}

' and that didnt work in internet error. moving to using the forms/images arrays directly .... that's on the development server and that doesnt work in internet error either.

does internet error not understand the DOM???

POSIX. because a stable os that doesn't have memory leaks and isn't buggy is always good.

m3rajk posted this at 16:14 — 5th July 2004.

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anyone have any suggestions for me on how to get microsoft internet error to submit the forms?

m3rajk posted this at 16:39 — 5th July 2004.

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i just realized all the buttons in hotmail are rollovers, which means that this MUST be possible in ie. i'm going to look at that source. if someone knows how, bplease feel free to save me a headache and explain it

POSIX. because a stable os that doesn't have memory leaks and isn't buggy is always good.

m3rajk posted this at 16:47 — 5th July 2004.

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example from hotmail....

the save button.....

<td class="P" nowrap onmouseover="MO()" onmouseout="MU()" onclick="Mail('Save')"><img src="http://64.4.55.45/i.p.folder.drafts.gif" border=0 align=absmiddle hspace=1 alt="Drafts"> Save Draft</td>'
and from farther down the page....

</form>
&lt;script language="JavaScript"&gt;
var frm = document.composeform;
var BccB = document.all.ButtonBcc;

function Save()
{
var bSbmt = true;
if (bSbmt)
{
frm._HMaction.value="Save";
frm.submit();
}
}

and damn. the entire page has only one form.

POSIX. because a stable os that doesn't have memory leaks and isn't buggy is always good.

m3rajk posted this at 17:37 — 5th July 2004.

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i cant do one form. some things need GET. others need POST

Vincent Puglia posted this at 00:55 — 8th July 2004.

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Joined: Dec 1999

Hi,

1) document.all is primarily an IE4 thingy (IE5+ uses it in backward compatibility mode; all version 5+ browsers use document.getElementById)

2) you can change the method programmatically, see:
http://members.aol.com/grassblad/html/searchForm.html

Vinny

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