why won't a display='block' show content until script terminates?

[1DMF]

Hi,

I seem to have hit a major snag, I'm trying to write an AJAX application, however, I issue a

myobject.style.display='block';

but nothing is displayed until the entire script finishes running?

this is causing an error as i'm trying to set the focus to a specific textarea and it is erroring because the text area isn't visible.

But i've made it visible with the above prior command , i don't understand?

Why is this happening

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[1DMF]

Sorted! it was a hierachy issue.

although I was displaying the the element in question a surrounding div higher up the tree was still display=none.

Because the screen only seemed to display the content once the script terminated, I was observing effect and misunderstanding cause.

took me a while to track this sucker down!



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