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  • freefony
    New Member
    • Nov 2008
    • 59
    #1

    Javascript not working with XHTML DTD

    wrote a javascript and it never worked until i removed the
    Code:
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    i thought this is a standard and wonder why i have to remove it before mycode will work
    am using dreamweaver 8
    any help?
    Last edited by Dormilich; Sep 8 '09, 12:25 PM. Reason: changed title
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    • Dormilich
      Recognized Expert Expert
      • Aug 2008
      • 8694
      #2
      the only problem I ever had with Javascript and a XHTML DTD is that Firebug complains about a missing semi-colon (which doesn’t make sense and I always can safely ignore this error)

      btw. is it not working in dreamweaver or not working in the browser?

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        • RamananKalirajan
          Contributor
          • Mar 2008
          • 608
          #3
          Are you using any JS Framework with your code.. like ExtJS or Jquery?

          Thanks and Regards
          Ramanan Kalirajan

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            • acoder
              Recognized Expert MVP
              • Nov 2006
              • 16032
              #4
              For any new pages, you should be using strict except in a few cases. Also, are you really using XHTML or HTML? Post your JavaScript code or explain what was not working.

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                • freefony
                  New Member
                  • Nov 2008
                  • 59
                  #5
                  this is my javavscript

                  Code:
                  function show(menu){
   if(menu.style.display="none"){
       menu.style.display="";
   }else{
            menu.style.display="none";
          }
}
                  i dont think there is anything special here

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                    • Dormilich
                      Recognized Expert Expert
                      • Aug 2008
                      • 8694
                      #6
                      Originally posted by freefony
                      Code:
                         if(menu.style.display="none"){
                      is the assignment here intended?

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                        • freefony
                          New Member
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 59
                          #7
                          yes

                          yes i want the display to be none on page load is there a better way?

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                            • Dormilich
                              Recognized Expert Expert
                              • Aug 2008
                              • 8694
                              #8
                              use the window.onload event or a CSS default value.

                              Code:
                              menu.style.display="";
                              is not valid CSS. should be one of "block", "inline", "inline-block", … but certainly not "".

                              your show() function will always set the display style to "", no matter which value it had before.

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                                • freefony
                                  New Member
                                  • Nov 2008
                                  • 59
                                  #9
                                  thanks for that it helps . but please if u do php what is the javascricpt equivelent for ? and | location am working on a frameset with 3 windows 1search window 2.design window and 3. result window . something like this
                                  Code:
                                  var regno= this.document.forms[0].reg.value;
<input type="button" id="regno" onclick="result.src='result.php?regno=regno'"/>
                                  the src of the result window is dynamic and can display other documents

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                                    • Dormilich
                                      Recognized Expert Expert
                                      • Aug 2008
                                      • 8694
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by freefony
                                      but please if u do php what is the javascricpt equivelent for ? and | location
                                      what is that supposed to mean?

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                                        • freefony
                                          New Member
                                          • Nov 2008
                                          • 59
                                          #11
                                          in php i will do this when the button is click
                                          Code:
                                          header("location:result.php?regno=$regno");
                                          but i want javascript to do this with an onclick event of a button

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                                            • Dormilich
                                              Recognized Expert Expert
                                              • Aug 2008
                                              • 8694
                                              #12
                                              use location.href

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