Javascript/ Internet Explorer 9 issues

[chasero13]

I have the following script on a website:

<script language="javascript">
function toggle(targetId) {
target = document.all(targetId);
if (target.style.display == "none"){
target.style.display="";
} else {
target.style.display="none";
}
}
//-->
</script>

<font color="red" size="4" face="helvetica"><a href="javascript:toggle('Link1')"><font color="red">EXAMPLE</font></a>
<div id="Link1" style="display: none"></font>

<div align="left"><font color="#4a4a4a" size="2" face="helvetica">Example only. Example only. Example only.</font></div>
</div>

Code works fine on Internet explorer 6, chrome and opera. However, on internet explorer 9, it does not work. I have verified browser settings. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

[felgall]

document.all is for IE4 - for IE5 and later as well as all other modern browsers use document.getElementById

[Logic Ali]

Originally Posted by chasero13

I have the following script on a website:

Then lose it along with javascript:, language="javascript" and <font>, all of which are unnecessary or deprecated.

<script type="text/javascript">

function toggle( targetId ) 
{
  var elem = document.getElementById( targetId );
  
  elem.style.display = ( elem.style.display == "none" ? "block" : "none" ); 
  
  return false;
}

</script>

<a href="#" onclick="return toggle('Link1')">EXAMPLE</a>
<div id="Link1" style="display: none">
 <div align="left"><font color="#4a4a4a" size="2" face="helvetica">Example only. Example only. Example only.
 </div>
</div>

[Philip M]

As I quite frequently say,

The <!-- and //--> comment (hiding) tags have not been necessary since IE3 (i.e. since September 1997). If you see these in some published script it is a warning that (as in this case) you are looking at ancient and perhaps unreliable code.

Surely Chrome and Opera do not recognise document.all? That is IE specific.

[rnd me]

IE9 shouldn't recognize document.all() if the page validates...

[Old Pedant]

IE9 can *either* be standards compliant or older-IE-compliant.

The best thing to do is simply forget that document.all *EVER* existed.

It ceased to be needed when MSIE 5.0 arrived...in MARCH 1999.

So are you REALLY going to worry about MSIE 4? A program made obsolete over THIRTEEN YEARS AGO???

Sheesh.