scripatculous help

benf posted this at 13:22 — 11th January 2009.

Joined: Feb 2005

Please if anyone can tell me why this damn thing is not working please let me know asap.

Basically scriptaculous is not working and in the error console is telling me "element.down() is null"

Here is my simple page:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
    <title></title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
     <script type="text/javascript" src="scriptaculous/lib/prototype.js"></script>
     <script type="text/javascript" src="scriptaculous/src/scriptaculous.js"></script>  
	 <script type="text/javascript">
	 	function toggleDiv(){
			Effect.SlideUp('thediv');
			return false;
		}
	 </script> 
	 <style type="text/css">
	 	#thediv{
			width:300px;
			height:250px;
			background:red;			
		}
	 </style>
	   
  </head>
  <body>
      <span onClick="toggleDiv();">ToggleDiv</span>
      <div id="thediv"></div>
  </body>
</html>

I have checked the path to scriptaculous about 1000 times, this has been boggling me for around 1 hour - a simple slideUp or BindUp

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pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 13:52 — 11th January 2009.

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Can you link this to a live page?

decibel.places posted this at 15:24 — 11th January 2009.

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Yeah, to test a fix, I would need to repeat your structure with the script libraries... a live page would really help

here's a shot in the dark - I'm not familiar with your function, but I wonder if removing "return false;" or changing it to "return true;" would have any effect?

function toggleDiv(){
Effect.SlideUp('thediv');
return false;
}

benf posted this at 12:50 — 12th January 2009.

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Rather than using a fresh download of the scripts, i copied a current copy of scriptaculous over and it works. Perhaps there is a bug the current download?

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greg posted this at 20:22 — 14th January 2009.

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Or an error in the file transfer.