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nikko50

09-04-2012 11:13 PM

object required?

Why do I get object required?

Code:

   <div id=layer1 style="visibility:hidden; position: absolute; top: 250; left: 20; width: 550; height: 100;  background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 2px dotted #6699FF; padding: 5px"></div>





<script>

function remove(removeId){



        alert(removeId);

};





var emptyDiv = "layer1";



var xx =" <span style='float:right'><a class='view' href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='remove("+emptyDiv+")'; return false;>Remove Report</a></span> ";



  document.getElementById(emptyDiv).style.visibility = 'visible';

  document.getElementById(emptyDiv).innerHTML = xx;

 



      

</script>

Old Pedant

09-05-2012 12:01 AM

I give up, why do you? I don't.

I do have to ask why you wrote

Code:

.... onclick='remove("+emptyDiv+")'; ...

That's kind of meaningless.

It surely should have been

Code:

.... onclick='remove(emptyDiv)'; ...

Old Pedant

09-05-2012 12:05 AM

As your code is written, you would be callling

Code:

remove(layer1)

There is no variable by that name, so when you end up doing

Code:

alert(removeId)

you will either be doing the equivalent of alert(null) or, esp. in MSIE browsers, alert( the_object_with_the_id_of_layer1 ) (because MSIE treats IDs as object references if you don't override that meaning).

Lerura

09-05-2012 12:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Old Pedant (Post 1267000)

(because MSIE treats IDs as object references if you don't override that meaning).

This behaviour is as far as I can see implemented in FF 15 too

Old Pedant

09-05-2012 01:15 AM

Interesting. Didn't used to be. Wow. That's a big change.

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