Question on HTML DOM Select Object

[lunlun]

To clarify, the thing i'm trying to insert is,
http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/dom_obj_select.asp


I have a table and i want to insert a select object into one of the cell. but i am getting a "Type mismatch" error on line with code "cell.insertBefore(selectBox);"


I am running IE 6

                  var selectBox = document.createElement('select');
 
                var option = document.createElement('option');
                option.text = "And";
 
                try
                {
                    selectBox.add(option, null); // standards compliant
                }
                  catch(ex)
                {
                    selectBox.add(option); // IE only
                }
 
 
            }
 
            cell5.insertBefore(selectBox);
 

Thank you for your time

[rnd me]

To clarify, the thing i'm trying to insert is,
http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/dom_obj_select.asp


I have a table and i want to insert a select object into one of the cell. but i am getting a "Type mismatch" error on line with code "cell.insertBefore(selectBox);"


I am running IE 6

                  var selectBox = document.createElement('select');
 
                var option = document.createElement('option');
                option.text = "And";
 
                try
                {
                    selectBox.add(option, null); // standards compliant
                }
                  catch(ex)
                {
                    selectBox.add(option); // IE only
                }
 
 
            }
 
            cell5.insertBefore(selectBox);
 

Thank you for your time

you have an extra " } " in this snippit...

you might only be able to add to selects already merged into the document.

i try to avoid try/catch in my code.
the following syntax avoids the try/catch, and works across browsers:

var selectBox = document.createElement('select');
selectBox.options[selectBox.options.length]= new Option ("And", "valueHere");
 
 
//also: to delete all the options in a list:
selectBox.options.length=0;