Re: IE, getAttribute, search, and selects

Philip Thompson wrote:
> I'm racking my brain over this one. IE is being mean again. I am getting
> the errors "Object doesn't support this property or method" and "Could
> not complete the operation due to error 80020101." I did searches for
> these, but none of those specific problems seemed to apply to me. Here's
> my (condensed) JS - what's wrong?!
>
> <js>
> function updateRequiredField (id) {
> var element = document.getElementById(id);
> var onchange = element.getAttribute('onchange');
> var action = "updateRequiredField('"+id+"');";
> ...
> if (element && element.options) {
> // If a select box
> if (onchange) {
> alert(element.name+' onchange: '+onchange);
>
> if (onchange.search('updateRequiredField') == -1) {
> onchange = onchange ? onchange + action : action;
> element.setAttribute('onchange', onchange);
> }
> } else if (!onchange) {
> element.setAttribute('onchange', action);
> }
> }
> ...
> }
> </js>
>
> IE breaks on line 11 - "if (onchange.search...". When alert'ing the
> onchange string in IE, I get: "function anonymous() { aFunctionName();
> }". In FF, I get: "aFunctionName();" and it works fine. Where is that
> "function anonymous" coming from?
>
> What I'm wanting to do is dynamically add an onchange event. This event
> function will then run validation on the form field. Any helpful hints
> on what's happening would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> ~Philip

There is no mention of <js> in my HTML reference. Is it synonymous to 
<script type="javascript"> ? Or did I misinterpret you?

Oh, and by the way, maybe a Microsoft newsgroup ( 
nntp://msnews.microsoft.com/* IIRC) or a general Usenet group about 
javascript, would be better suited for this question.


Best regards,
Tony.
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