Preserved Topic: I just found a solution to a nasty gotcha! (Page 1 of 1)

A warning to all dhtml types who are dynamically writing html code into your layerdivs.

I am doing this extensively on my home page and on a new photo gallery page. There is a nasty bug that occurs on Internet Explorer 5 Macintosh Edition. If you write a table in your layerdiv, IE5 royally screws it up and squashes all your content into one line.

Here is an example of a page that is messed up, remember this only affects IE5 Macintosh:
http://www.natwest.com/

Here is an example of problem code:

document.all.layername.innerHTML = "<table><tr><td>blah blah blah</td></tr></table>";

In order to avoid this nasty problem you need to place a newline code "\n" at the end of the string and it will work fine. The corrected code would look like this:

document.all.layername.innerHTML = "<table><tr><td>blah blah blah</td></tr></table>\n";

Is anyone using IE5 on the Mac??? I wouldn't have even known about it but I just got a Mac at work.

I guess it's not very dificult to find that bug once you've got a Mac. But how on earth did you find that solution? Quite impressive!

osh

hey, i got the same problem on my last website. it was also discussed in this forum.
http://www.ozones.com/forum/Forum6/HTML/000129.html

doc gave me the tip to specify height and width in the styles. it seems to work(with ie4 on mac)

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