Weird beahviour in IE setting display

[GISHacker]

Hi,

I am setting a div element visible using the following code
function showHelp()
{
var helpDiv = getRawObject('Help');
helpDiv.style.display = 'block';
}

It works fine in FF but in IE 7 it scrolls the page down to the div as if I was going to an anchor link.

Does anyone know why this my be happening

Thanks

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Is the "getRawObject" function doing anything other than a "getElementById" call?

Dan



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[GISHacker]

Yep

function getRawObject(obj) {
var theObj;
if (typeof obj == "string") {
if (isW3C) {
theObj = document.getElementById(obj);
} else if (isIE4) {
theObj = document.all(obj);
} else if (isNN4) {
theObj = seekLayer(document, obj);
}
} else {
// pass through object reference
theObj = obj;
}
return theObj;
}

this.isW3C = (this.isCSS && document.getElementById) ? true : false;

 

[GISHacker]

FIXED!

I changed
<a href="#" onClick="showHelp();"><span>help</span></a>
to this
<a href="javascript:showHelp();"><span>help</span></a></span>
and it's fixed

Thanks
G'Hacker

 

[trollacious]

Your getRawObject(obj) is totally unnecessary nowadays, unless you SPECIFICALLY need to be programming for browsers before Netscape 6 and IE 5.

var helpDiv = getRawObject('Help');

can be replaced with

var helpDiv = getElementById('Help');

Lee