Equivalent of .disabled = false in Mozilla?

**Dennis Biletsky** · Jul 23 '05, 10:52 AM

Re: Equivalent of .disabled = false in Mozilla?

"Red_Indian " <redindian@live rpoolfans.com> ???????/???????? ? ????????
?????????: news:2gc8b4F123 n0U1@uni-berlin.de...[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> How do I accomplish the following functionality in Mozilla/ Firefox:
>
> document.form.t extbox.disabled = false
>
> if I want to conditionally enable a text box that was disabled by default.
>
> The above code works fine in IE, but doesn't in Mozilla. I have seen
> somewhere the Mozilla equivalent of the same, but can't quite find it.
>
> Also I would appreciate if you can point me to a solution (if any) that
> works in both of them, without having to resort to checking the browsers
> and executing seperate code.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> RI[/color]
I checked in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6)
Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8.
It works.
Here is piece of code.
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Page</title>
</head>
<form name="form123" id="form123" method="post">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="catalog" SIZE="20">
<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="button1" VALUE="disable"
onClick="form12 3.catalog.disab led=true">
<INPUT TYPE="button" NAME="button2" VALUE="enable"
onClick="form12 3.catalog.disab led=false">
</form>
</html>

**kaeli** · Jul 23 '05, 10:52 AM

Re: Equivalent of .disabled = false in Mozilla?

In article <2gc8b4F123n0U1 @uni-berlin.de>, redindian@liver poolfans.com
enlightened us with...[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> How do I accomplish the following functionality in Mozilla/ Firefox:
>
> document.form.t extbox.disabled = false
>[/color]

IIRC, standard cross-browser code would be

document.forms["formname"].elements["elementnam e"].disabled = false;

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**Red_Indian** · Jul 23 '05, 10:52 AM

Re: Equivalent of .disabled = false in Mozilla?

Dennis Biletsky wrote:
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> I checked in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6)
> Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8.
> It works.
>
>[/color]

My mistake!!

I asked the wrong question... :p

I want to know the equivalent of ".innerHTML " in Mozilla

e.g.

document.getEle mentById('label 1').innerHTML = "Test"
/
/
...
<p id="label1">

When you look at my code you'll see why I made the mistake of asking the
"wrong question" - I didn't realize that maybe the condition wasn't
being satified in the first place.

if (document.getEl ementById('labe l1').innerHTML != '')
{
document.reques t.textbox.disab led=false
....
}

Thanks once again!
"RI"
;)

**Lasse Reichstein Nielsen** · Jul 23 '05, 10:53 AM

Re: Equivalent of .disabled = false in Mozilla?

Red_Indian <redindian@live rpoolfans.com> writes:
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> I want to know the equivalent of ".innerHTML " in Mozilla[/color]

innerHTML works in Mozilla.
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> document.getEle mentById('label 1').innerHTML = "Test"
> /
> /
> ...
> <p id="label1">[/color]

I hope there is an </p> somewhere. Make sure your HTML is valid,
or that could be the cause of your problems.

Is the assignment happening before the <p> has been placed on the
page?
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> if (document.getEl ementById('labe l1').innerHTML != '')[/color]

There is nothing here that shoudln't work in Mozilla/Gecko.
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> {
> document.reques t.textbox.disab led=false[/color]

This might work, but I would recommend:
document.forms['request'].elements['textbox'].disabled = false;

/L
--
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**Red_Indian** · Jul 23 '05, 10:53 AM

Re: Equivalent of .disabled = false in Mozilla?

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:[color=blue]
> Make sure your HTML is valid,
> or that could be the cause of your problems.
>[/color]

That tip helped me identify the problem. I ran the validator (and
amongst the other things :D) I found I was doing this right BEFORE the
code I sent in my earlier mail:

function refresh()
{
req_type=docume nt.getElementBy Id('type').valu e
.....

}

for a control NAMED (not the id) "type" :

<select name="type" onchange="refre sh()">

While IE was forgiving this mistake and "realizing" I "meant" this:

document.myform .type.value (I don't know why I didn't use this in the
first place!!)

Mozilla wasn't (and rightly so ofcourse)

Anyways, I planned to run the HTML validator "at the end" of my project,
but the lesson I have learnt is it's never to early to validate your
HTML code. I guess I should get one of those editors with a built in
validator ;)

Thanks Lasee and everybody else!
RI

DU · Jul 23 '05, 10:55 AM

Re: Equivalent of .disabled = false in Mozilla?

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:
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> Red_Indian <redindian@live rpoolfans.com> writes:
>
>[color=green]
>>I want to know the equivalent of ".innerHTML " in Mozilla[/color]
>
>
> innerHTML works in Mozilla.
>
>[color=green]
>>document.getE lementById('lab el1').innerHTML = "Test"
>> /
>> /
>> ...
>><p id="label1">[/color]
>[/color]

If the node to change is a text node, then innerHTML can be conveniently
replaced by W3C DOM 2 CharacterData attribute or a DOM Core attribtue
like assigning the childNodes[0].nodeValue; either way, such methods
which will work in Opera 7.x, MSIE 5+, Mozilla, Safari, etc..

DU

Equivalent of .disabled = false in Mozilla?

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