createElement('SELECT') not working

snakehips2000 · Dec 11, 2009

Maybe I'm missing something in how this javascript statement is meant to work but I can't get a (blank) select box to display when I load a page. Any advice appreciated:

<%@LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "

http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="

http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function makeForm() {
objSel=document.createElement('SELECT');
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="makeForm();">
</body>
</html>

feherke · Dec 11, 2009

Hi

[ol]
[li]That code works correctly[/li]
[li]There is no reason for the [tt]select[/tt] to appear[/li]
[/ol]

JavaScript:

        [b]function[/b] [COLOR=darkgoldenrod]makeForm[/color][teal]()[/teal] [teal]{[/teal]
            objSel[teal]=[/teal]document[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]createElement[/color][teal]([/teal][green][i]'SELECT'[/i][/green][teal]);[/teal]
            [highlight]document[teal].[/teal]body[teal].[/teal][COLOR=darkgoldenrod]appendChild[/color][teal]([/teal]objSel[teal]);[/teal][/highlight]
        [teal]}[/teal]

Note that the above is just a quick & dirty example. You should place [tt]form[/tt] elements only inside [tt]form[/tt] tags.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

snakehips2000 · Dec 11, 2009

Much appreciated. I guess I didn't word the aim of the exercise too well - I needed to know how to make the SELECT box visible. Your example answerered this, thanks.

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