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Javascript not working with XHTML DTD

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#1: Sep 8 '09
wrote a javascript and it never worked until i removed the
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  1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  2.   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
i thought this is a standard and wonder why i have to remove it before mycode will work
am using dreamweaver 8
any help?
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#2: Sep 8 '09

re: Javascript not working with XHTML DTD

the only problem I ever had with Javascript and a XHTML DTD is that Firebug complains about a missing semi-colon (which doesn’t make sense and I always can safely ignore this error)

btw. is it not working in dreamweaver or not working in the browser?
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#3: Sep 8 '09

re: Javascript not working with XHTML DTD

Are you using any JS Framework with your code.. like ExtJS or Jquery?

Thanks and Regards
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#4: Sep 8 '09

re: Javascript not working with XHTML DTD

For any new pages, you should be using strict except in a few cases. Also, are you really using XHTML or HTML? Post your JavaScript code or explain what was not working.
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#5: Sep 9 '09

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  1. function show(menu){
  2.    if(menu.style.display="none"){
  3.        menu.style.display="";
  4.    }else{
  5.             menu.style.display="none";
  6.           }
  7. }
  8.  
i dont think there is anything special here
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#6: Sep 9 '09

re: Javascript not working with XHTML DTD

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Originally Posted by freefony View Post

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  1.    if(menu.style.display="none"){

is the assignment here intended?
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#7: Sep 9 '09

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yes i want the display to be none on page load is there a better way?
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#8: Sep 9 '09

re: Javascript not working with XHTML DTD

use the window.onload event or a CSS default value.

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  1. menu.style.display="";
is not valid CSS. should be one of "block", "inline", "inline-block", … but certainly not "".

your show() function will always set the display style to "", no matter which value it had before.
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#9: Sep 9 '09

re: Javascript not working with XHTML DTD

thanks for that it helps . but please if u do php what is the javascricpt equivelent for ? and | location am working on a frameset with 3 windows 1search window 2.design window and 3. result window . something like this
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  1. var regno= this.document.forms[0].reg.value;
  2. <input type="button" id="regno" onclick="result.src='result.php?regno=regno'"/> 
  3.  
the src of the result window is dynamic and can display other documents
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#10: Sep 9 '09

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Originally Posted by freefony View Post

but please if u do php what is the javascricpt equivelent for ? and | location

what is that supposed to mean?
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#11: Sep 9 '09

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in php i will do this when the button is click
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  1. header("location:result.php?regno=$regno");
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but i want javascript to do this with an onclick event of a button
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#12: Sep 9 '09

re: Javascript not working with XHTML DTD

use location.href

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