220737 - Dynamically changing DIV STYLE is javascript has no effect.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Hsieh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

The dynamically changing the DIV STYLE via document.all["elname"].style.display
= "block"/"none"; via Javascript does not change the resulting HTML.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Visit http://www.pobox.com/~qed/petrock.html
2.  Try to click on "Expand all"
3.  Watch nothing happen (Opera and IE both do something different.)

Actual Results:  
Nothing.  That's the point.

Expected Results:  
A <DIV> section should have expanded to an non-block state and become visible.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

document.all is IE proprietary scripting that Opera has elected to support.

Mozilla does not and will not support it, since it is not the W3C standard.

See http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2001/updating-dhtml-web-pages/ for
how to write such scripts that are standard and Mozilla-supported.