bgColor error. What am I doing wrong?

[Don Lancaster]

I set up a table...

<table
bgcolor=#FF9966
name=msSel
onmouseover="msSel.bgColor='#FFCC66'"
onmouseout="differentFunction ();"
<tr><td>stuff</tr></td>

>

mouseout is eventully supposed to do several things,
only one of which is to reset the single cell table
color. A shortened function would be

function differentFunction (){

msSel.bgColor="#FF9966" ;
// other stuff here
} ;

on mouseout, a msSEL not found error is returned from
inside differentFunction.

substituting "this.bgColor" neither returns an error
nor changes the color. There are other reasons later
for not using "this" instead of specific names.

Why the error?
What is the correction or workaround?


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[Randy Webb]

Don Lancaster said the following on 4/24/2007 11:58 AM:

>
I set up a table...

<table
bgcolor=#FF9966
name=msSel
onmouseover="msSel.bgColor='#FFCC66'"
onmouseout="differentFunction ();"
<tr><td>stuff</tr></td>

>

mouseout is eventully supposed to do several things,
only one of which is to reset the single cell table
color. A shortened function would be

function differentFunction (){

msSel.bgColor="#FF9966" ;
// other stuff here
} ;

on mouseout, a msSEL not found error is returned from
inside differentFunction.

<URL: http://jibbering.com/faq/index.html#FAQ4_41>

onmouseout="differentFunction(this)"

function differentFunction(elem){
elem.bgColor="#FF9966"
}

But, why do you quote in your function (which you should) but not in
your HTML (which you should) while using deprecated HTML3.2 bgcolor
(which you shouldn't). CSS is your friend.

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[Kevin Darling]

On Apr 24, 11:58 am, Don Lancaster <[e-mail]:

function differentFunction (){
msSel.bgColor="#FF9966" ;

this.style.backgroundColor = "#FF9966";

Kev

[Randy Webb]

Kevin Darling said the following on 4/25/2007 6:36 PM:

On Apr 24, 11:58 am, Don Lancaster <[e-mail]:

> function differentFunction (){
msSel.bgColor="#FF9966" ;

this.style.backgroundColor = "#FF9966";

In that scenario? "this" doesn't refer to what you think it does. Test it :)

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[Kevin Darling]

On Apr 25, 6:41 pm, Randy Webb <[e-mail]:

Kevin Darling said the following on 4/25/2007 6:36 PM:

On Apr 24, 11:58 am, Don Lancaster <[e-mail]:

function differentFunction (){
msSel.bgColor="#FF9966" ;

this.style.backgroundColor = "#FF9966";

In that scenario? "this" doesn't refer to what you think it does. Test it :)

D'oh !! Yes, I know that. I posted very quickly before dinner and
mixed up editing two different answers. Shame on me!

Thanks for pointing it out :-)

Kev