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Posted by Ben C on 04/20/07 13:00
On 2007-04-20, jrf1@ntlworld.com <jrf1@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am developing an app. and I want to allow people to answer questions
> and jump the list of questions up as they do it. I can make this work
> but IE6 requires slightly different HTML than Firefox and Opera.
> See below...
>
> ** IE6 example *****
><table id="qtab">
><tr><a name='Q1'></a><td colspan=4> </td></tr>"
><tr>
><td class="q">Considers opportunities for growth and change.</td>
><td class="a"><input .............></td>
><td class="a"><input .............></td>
><td class="a"><input .............></td>
></tr>
> * tr repeated
></table>
>
[...]
> As you can see Firefox and Opera require the anchor Q1 to be within a
> TD. IE won't work with that setup and needs the anchor not to be
> defined
> within a table element.
It's invalid in a particularly nasty way to put an <a> and a " character
in a <tr> like that. If whatever bodge IE is doing with it works for you
today then that's lucky but this is not a sensible way to do things.
> The following script deals with this situation
>
><table id="qtab">
><script language="JavaScript">
> if (navigator.appName=="Microsoft Internet Explorer")
> { document.write("<a name='Q1'></a><td colspan=8> </td></tr>") }
> else
> { document.write("<td><a name='Q1'></a></td><td colspan=7>
></td></tr>") }
></script>
><tr>
><td class="q">Considers opportunities for growth and change.</td>
><td class="a"><input .............></td>
><td class="a"><input .............></td>
><td class="a"><input .............></td>
></tr>
> * tr repeated
></table>
>
> but it doesn't seem very elegant.
You have a gift for understatement.
> I'm not very happy with bits of script all through the page like this
> (as the page has a large number of questions on it). Can anyone
> suggest a better way?
No, but then I don't know exactly what you're trying to do. There has to
be a better way.
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