Why doesn't this work on Netscape 4.x & 6???

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Here is the javascript page:

http://www.alogical.com/parent.html

It works fine on IE but not with Netscape. The alert box is supposed to pop up.

I think it has something to do with the Browser Object Model but I'm not good enough to know how to fix it.

disaster-master's picture

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Well, I cheated and looked at your page at netmechanic.com and it says that 96% of all browsers, netscape and microsoft, do not support the "name" attribute of the span tag. I don't know much about it either but my guess is that is your problem.

Mark Hensler's picture

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Try using ID instead of name.

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Yes, I've been experimenting with ID instead of name but I believe that Nets 4.x doesn't support it.

Vincent Puglia's picture

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Hi,

1) NN4 does not support onclick for a selection list; the only valid event handler is onChange
2) NN4 does not support 'parentElement'

Vinny

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Thank you everyone

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