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When I view this page in IE 5.5 on my computer, the page links at the bottom of the page (page1 page2 ect.) work great with no errors. When I view the same page in the IE 5.5 browser that is in my Compuserve setup on the smae computer, I get errors saying object required. I'm using a script Mr. maX was kind enough to supply me with, so it can't be the code, unless I made a boo boo typing in into my code, but that still wouldn't explain why it does in one, and not the other.

Anybody run into this before?



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Butcher, try to open my example page in CompuServe's IE and see what will happen.

No, your test page works fine Mr. maX, it must be something I did with your code.Here's one of the pages in question, can you tell me what I screwed up on?

Also, while I have you Mr. maX. Could I theoretically use that same code to duplicate the sliding nav bar on that same page? I was thinking that I could start with the divs all lined up, but set the display on the subsections to { display: none;} and have it change to something like { display: inline;} (not quite sure on that point yet) when the user clicks on one of the headings. Do you think that would work?

As always, Thanks

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The problem is that you defined ten pages in the layers array, but you have only five.

As far as your second question is concerned, the answer is that it should work...

Thanks Mr. maX, and sorry bout that.

I knew none of the articles I have that PHP script running have more than 10 pages, so I just took a short cut in the script. I'll have to add some code to my PHP script to generate that dynamically.

Thanks for all your help


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Oh... and one more thing

Is there a way to suppress errors in JS like there is in PHP? Although I get and error in Compuserve, the script does work. If I can suppress that error, it'll be a done deal.

Thanks again


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You can put "window.onerror = null;" at the top of the first <script> tag, but that won't suppress error messages (IE will still show exclamation mark in the status bar). You can also disable JS debugging in Internet Options.



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Thanks Mr. maX

I made the adjustments in my PHP script and it works fine.

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mr. maX

I have modified the script you gave me to do my navigation thingy on the left of this page. Could you give me any pointers on making this work in NN 4.72, or is it not possible to do this in Netscape.

Thanks

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To put it simple, you can't change display property in Shitscape 4.

For more info go to this site: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/index.html and read "Archives/Old Display script" & "DHTML/Navigation: display" topics.

I was afraid of that.

Thanks for the link and all the help mr. maX, I appreciate it.

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It is possible to do in NN 4.x, I did the exact same thing once, but it's a nuisance.

You need to put it all in one big DIV, and have JavaScript arrays and objects containing the data for the dropdowns and links. Then you have to dynamically rewrite the entire HTML for the DIV every time someone clicks something in it. It's not *that* horrible a peice of code, and I may be able to dig it up...

then you just write the HTML with document.write - oh, wait, the catch is it all has to be in a layer. So, well, you may or may not be able to implement it. I'd recommend just removing the dropdown functionality for NN 4.x users, have it all un-collapsed immediately.

That's a good suggestion Slime, thanks. Maybe I'll even whip up a few graphics for it in NN.

Thanks again.

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