document.form.action not allowed? 1

[XgrinderX]

Hey everyone,

I have a weird thing going on here and hoped someone could shed some light on it. The following code:

alert(document.frmMessage.fid.value);
document.frmMessage.action = "messageContacts.asp";

produces an alert telling me the value of fid BUT fails on the attempt to set the action. It only does this in IE. The failure message is:

A runtime error has occurred.
Line: 210
Error: Object doesn't support this property or method.

What's going on here? I've double checked to make sure my form is only declared once and that it is properly closed. Why would IE throw this error but Firefox runs the code with no errors?

-Greg

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Rename the form field you have called "action" to something else.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

P.S. You often see similar errors with form fields called "method" or "submit", or any other default form property or method.

Dan



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[XgrinderX]

Holy crap BillyRay.....thanks so much! I probably would have spent a whole other day messing with this and STILL may have never figured that out. So obvious, yet so subtle.

THANKS!