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In the following page I'm utilizing visibility: visible/hidden. This script doesn't work correctly in Netscape 7. Can anyone tell me where I can find documentation on work arounds for this visibility problem?



[This message has been edited by Boudga (edited 03-04-2003).]

Ug.

That's some darn ugly code. Regardless, it should still work in Netscape 7, so I don't know why it doesn't. Does it work in Mozilla?

Coding tips:
1. learn "else if"
2. remove all three occurances of the eval function, none of them are necessary
3. if support for NN4 is really that important to you, use "show" and "hide" instead of "show" and "hidden".

Works fine for me in Mozilla 1.3(b). Netscape 7 is based on a much less recent version of Mozilla though (1.0.something I think), so it could be that it interprets your code in a way it shouldn't ... but following Slime's tips might help there as well.

Slime can you point me to any URLs that show a more elegant means of achieving what I'm trying to achieve

function toggleVisibility(id, vis) {
if (document.getElementById) {
document.getElementById(id).style.visibility = vis
} elseif (document.layers) {
document.layers[id].visibility = (vis == 'visible') ? 'show':'hide';
} elseif(document.all) {
document.all.id.style.visiblity = vis;
}
}


now just call it with
toggleVisiblity('mail', 'visible');
or toggleVisiblity('mail','hidden');

I think that should work



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

Bit's code is excellent; just change the line

document.all.id.style.visiblity = vis;

to

document.all[id]style.visiblity = vis;

since you don't actually want (the property of document.all named "id"), you want (the property of document.all named (whatever the sting-value of "id" is)).