[if IE 6] InnerHtml 1

[ClulessChris]

I have a div at the bottom of my page with the id 'topLink'
useing conditional statements I'd like to place a boookmark to the top of the page if the browser is IE6.
Have tried the following, but can't see where my error is.
I'm fairly new to Javascript.

<!--[if IE 6]>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function onLoad(){ 
	document.getElementById('topLink').innerHTML = '<p><a href="modern_history.htm#top">Return to Top of Page</a></p>';
					 }
</script>
			
<![endif]-->

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[dwarfthrower]

Does it work if you take out the conditional comment?

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[ClulessChris]

Thanks for your response.

I've now taken a different tack. I've left link in the div but initially hidden the div with css, and used conditional comments to make it visible.

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

 

[cLFlaVA]

your mistake was probably that you were re-using a javascript event name (onload). had you named it something unique, the error may have been resolved.

 

[ClulessChris]

cLFlaVA,

On what event would the procedure then be called from?

Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!

 

[kaht]

Chris, what cory is saying is that you created a function with the reserved name of a browser defined event. If you want something to happen once the page has completed loading, you don't create a function called onload, instead you assign a function to the onload event handler, like this:

<!--[if IE 6]>
<script type="text/javascript">
[!]window.onload = function ()[/!] {
   document.getElementById('topLink').innerHTML = '<p><a href="modern_history.htm#top">Return to Top of Page</a></p>';
};
</script>
            
<![endif]-->

-kaht

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