problem with style.display=" none" in NN7

Andy Fish

Hi,

I have a section of a web page that I want to be able to make appear and
disappear with javascript, with the things below it moving up and down as
appropriate. I'm not using absolute positioning or anthing fancy. I put the
aforementioned section in a div:

<div id="foo">
... optional stuff in here
</div>

when I want to hide it, I do this:

document.getEle mentById("foo") .style.display= "none";

and to show it again I do this:

document.getEle mentById("foo") .style.display= "inline";

This works fine in IE6 and Opera, but I have a problem with NN7. When the
page comes up it's visible. the first time I hide it, it works fine, then I
show it again and it works, the second time I try to hide it, nothing
happens - the display style gets set to 'none' but the div is still visible
on the page.

if the div contains only text (no tags at all), it works OK every time.

Can anybody throw any light on this or suggest possible workarounds?

Many thanks

Andy

Jul 20 '05 #1

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Klaus Krtschil

Andy Fish schrieb:

Hi,

I have a section of a web page that I want to be able to make appear and
disappear with javascript, with the things below it moving up and down as
appropriate. I'm not using absolute positioning or anthing fancy. I put the
aforementioned section in a div:

<div id="foo">
... optional stuff in here
</div>

when I want to hide it, I do this:

document.getEle mentById("foo") .style.display= "none";

and to show it again I do this:

document.getEle mentById("foo") .style.display= "inline";

This works fine in IE6 and Opera, but I have a problem with NN7. When the
page comes up it's visible. the first time I hide it, it works fine, then I
show it again and it works, the second time I try to hide it, nothing
happens - the display style gets set to 'none' but the div is still visible
on the page.

if the div contains only text (no tags at all), it works OK every time.

Can anybody throw any light on this or suggest possible workarounds?

Many thanks

Andy

Can you provide a link? That would help a lot.

Klaus

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Registered Linux user #54760

Jul 20 '05 #2

Klaus Krtschil

Andy Fish schrieb:

Hi,

I have a section of a web page that I want to be able to make appear and
disappear with javascript, with the things below it moving up and down as
appropriate. I'm not using absolute positioning or anthing fancy. I put the
aforementioned section in a div:

<div id="foo">
... optional stuff in here
</div>

when I want to hide it, I do this:

document.getEle mentById("foo") .style.display= "none";

and to show it again I do this:

document.getEle mentById("foo") .style.display= "inline";

This works fine in IE6 and Opera, but I have a problem with NN7. When the
page comes up it's visible. the first time I hide it, it works fine, then I
show it again and it works, the second time I try to hide it, nothing
happens - the display style gets set to 'none' but the div is still visible
on the page.

if the div contains only text (no tags at all), it works OK every time.

Can anybody throw any light on this or suggest possible workarounds?

Many thanks

Andy

Can you provide a link? That would help a lot.

Klaus

--
Registered Linux user #54760

Jul 20 '05 #3

Andy Fish

here's a complete stand-alone example:

<HTML><head><sc ript language="javas cript">
function Button1_onclick ()
{document.getEl ementById("foo" ).style.display ="none";}
function Button2_onclick ()
{document.getEl ementById("foo" ).style.display ="inline";}
</script></head>
<BODY>
<p>this is always visible</p>
<div id="foo"><p>thi s is sometimes visible</p></div>
<P>
<INPUT id="Button1" type="button" value="Button" name="Button1"
onclick="return Button1_onclick ()">
<INPUT id="Button2" type="button" value="Button" name="Button2"
onclick="return Button2_onclick ()">
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>

click on the left button to make the text disappear and the right button to
make it appear. on Netscape 7 it only works once then it stays visible all
the time. other browsers seem to work OK.
"Klaus Krtschil" <kl*****@gmx.de > wrote in message
news:bh******** ****@ID-105021.news.uni-berlin.de...

Can you provide a link? That would help a lot.

Klaus

--
Registered Linux user #54760

Jul 20 '05 #4

Lee

Andy Fish said:

here's a complete stand-alone example:
[...]
click on the left button to make the text disappear and the right button to
make it appear. on Netscape 7 it only works once then it stays visible all
the time. other browsers seem to work OK.

It works fine for me in Netscape 7.1.
What messages do you see in the JavaScript console?

Jul 20 '05 #5

Robert E. Boughner

Makes sense since DIV is a block element whereas plain text is an inline
element.

Andy Fish wrote:

fixed it (I think)

using the darwinian theory of natural selection, I tried making random
changes to the code to see if it would make any difference

turns out that using style.display=" block" to make it visible (rather than
"inline" works OK).

Andy
"Andy Fish" <aj****@blueyon der.co.uk> wrote in message
news:y_******** *************@n ews-text.cableinet. net...
here's a complete stand-alone example:

<HTML><head>< script language="javas cript">
function Button1_onclick ()
{document.get ElementById("fo o").style.displ ay="none";}
function Button2_onclick ()
{document.get ElementById("fo o").style.displ ay="inline";}
</script></head>
<BODY>
<p>this is always visible</p>
<div id="foo"><p>thi s is sometimes visible</p></div>
<P>
<INPUT id="Button1" type="button" value="Button" name="Button1"
onclick="retu rn Button1_onclick ()">
<INPUT id="Button2" type="button" value="Button" name="Button2"
onclick="retu rn Button2_onclick ()">
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>

click on the left button to make the text disappear and the right button

to
make it appear. on Netscape 7 it only works once then it stays visible all
the time. other browsers seem to work OK.
"Klaus Krtschil" <kl*****@gmx.de > wrote in message
news:bh****** ******@ID-105021.news.uni-berlin.de...

Can you provide a link? That would help a lot.

Klaus

--
Registered Linux user #54760

Jul 20 '05 #6

Andy Fish

I have netscape 7.01 - nothing was coming out on the JS console

so maybe it was a bug and my fix was infact a workaround.

"Lee" <RE************ **@cox.net> wrote in message
news:bh******** @drn.newsguy.co m...

Andy Fish said:

here's a complete stand-alone example:
[...]
click on the left button to make the text disappear and the right button tomake it appear. on Netscape 7 it only works once then it stays visible allthe time. other browsers seem to work OK.

It works fine for me in Netscape 7.1.
What messages do you see in the JavaScript console?

Jul 20 '05 #7

Klaus Krtschil

Andy Fish schrieb:

fixed it (I think)

using the darwinian theory of natural selection, I tried making random
changes to the code to see if it would make any difference

turns out that using style.display=" block" to make it visible (rather than
"inline" works OK).

Andy
"Andy Fish" <aj****@blueyon der.co.uk> wrote in message
news:y_******** *************@n ews-text.cableinet. net...
here's a complete stand-alone example:

<HTML><head>< script language="javas cript">
function Button1_onclick ()
{document.get ElementById("fo o").style.displ ay="none";}
function Button2_onclick ()
{document.get ElementById("fo o").style.displ ay="inline";}
</script></head>
<BODY>
<p>this is always visible</p>
<div id="foo"><p>thi s is sometimes visible</p></div>
<P>
<INPUT id="Button1" type="button" value="Button" name="Button1"
onclick="retu rn Button1_onclick ()">
<INPUT id="Button2" type="button" value="Button" name="Button2"
onclick="retu rn Button2_onclick ()">
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>

click on the left button to make the text disappear and the right button

to
make it appear. on Netscape 7 it only works once then it stays visible all
the time. other browsers seem to work OK.
"Klaus Krtschil" <kl*****@gmx.de > wrote in message
news:bh****** ******@ID-105021.news.uni-berlin.de...

Can you provide a link? That would help a lot.

Klaus

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Registered Linux user #54760

Both variants (block/inline) work with Moz 1.4 (Linux)

Klaus

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Jul 20 '05 #8

gavin long

Andy Fish wrote:

turns out that using style.display=" block" to make it visible (rather than
"inline" works OK).

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195567

[yikes! this thread is cross-posted all over the show. Follow-ups set
to n.p.m.browser]

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Jul 20 '05 #9

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