161702 - msn.co.in - Next Javascript button doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

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From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/0
BuildID:    00000000

There is a next button on this site - it doesn't work - it works on Konqueror 3.0

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Goto website
2.Click on Next
3.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

Having this message in JS console :

"Error: tr1 is not defined
Source File: http://server1.msn.co.in/features/overweight/fab.asp
Line: 1257"

Here is the "faulty" JS 

"<script language="javascript">

ctr=1;
function fun(val)
{             		
if(val =="n")
{
ctr++;
if(ctr>="7")
{
ctr=1;
}
}
else
{
ctr--;
if(ctr<="0")
{
ctr=5;
}	
}
tr1.style.display='none';
tr2.style.display='none';
tr3.style.display='none';
tr4.style.display='none';
tr5.style.display='none';
tr6.style.display='none';
tr7.style.display='none';

pr.style.display='inline';
ne.style.display='inline';
switch (ctr)
{
case 1:

tr1.style.display="inline";
pr.style.display='none';
break;

case 2:
							tr2.style.display="inline";							break;

case 3:
tr3.style.display="inline";
break;

case 4:
							tr4.style.display="inline";
break;

case 5:

tr5.style.display="inline";
ne.style.display='none';
break;

case 6:

tr6.style.display="inline";
						
break;

case 7:
							tr7.style.display="inline";
break;
}
}

</script>
<a href="javascript:fun('p')">

Moving to tech evangelism ?

Comment 2

[Phil Schwartau]

I get an error in the JS Console just by loading this site:

Error: img1 is not defined
Source File: http://server1.msn.co.in/features/overweight/fab.asp
Line: 23


This corresponds to the following element in their HTML:

                    <tr id="img1" >

Meanwhile, the error reported above involves this element:

                    <tr id="tr1" >


The site is using an non-standard IE-only DOM syntax, whereby
any HTML id is automatically placed in the global JavaScript 
namespace. So, in IE, the two HTML elements above AUTOMATICALLY
create two global JS variables |img1|, |tr1|.

The W3C-standard syntax would require

            var img1 = document.getElementById("img1")
            var tr1 = document.getElementById("tr1")


Reassigning to Tech Evangelism component -

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 4

[sjw]

Page is down.
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