I get more JS errors than I'd expect, on a wide range of sites. (It's
possible I only know this because the Debug is set on).
I found an error on a Microsoft site, and decided to investigate. I traced
it to this line:
document.all("characterCount").innerText = commentTextLength;
This is on a page deep inside a secure ordering sequence, so it's probably
not
worth copying the URL here.
According to my crib-sheet, "document.all" is only valid in the javascript
of IE4 and later. My browser is IE6 (SP1) which qualifies, but the
javascript I have doesn't like it. I also have other browsers and
Frontpage 2002 installed.
Any ideas? I do seem to see a lot of javascript errors, and not just my
own!
Here are the first lines of Javascript on the page, including the offending
line, marked with an added comment (//###....) on the line before:
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script src="/OMLibrary/script/functionsICS.js"
language="javascript"></script>
<!-- /common head -->
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
<!--
//---------------------------------------------------------
// this function counts up the text in the comment area and
// displays it on the page
//---------------------------------------------------------
function countText()
{
var commentText = document.forms.frmFeedback.commentArea.value;
var commentTextLength = 0;
commentTextLength = commentText.length;
//### marker comment added by OP - see next line ###
document.all("characterCount").innerText = commentTextLength;
if (commentTextLength > 1000)
{
alert('Please limit your comments to 1000 characters.');
document.forms.frmFeedback.commentArea.value =
commentText.substring(0,1000);
countText();
}
return true;
}
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