276853 - pssbeveiliging.nl - vbscript drop down menu not working

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Dutch, defect)

Description

[Wytse Zwikker]

Dear sir/maddam,

I discovered a problem creating a webpage.
For the website www.pssbeveiliging.nl I'm using a javascript for the menu. It's
a drop down menu but it doesn't drop down in Firefox. This menu is working fine
in Internet Explorer but is not working in my favorite browser Firefox.

This is the script:
<Script Language="VBscript">
      <!--
      Option Explicit
      DIM menuID,menuObj,cellBk
      SUB ShowHide(menuID)
      menuObj = "Link" & menuID
      cellbk = "Head" & menuID
      // CHECK IF OPEN
      if document.all.item(menuObj).className = "LINKSON" then    'IF MENU OPEN
THEN CLOSE
      document.all.item(menuObj).className = "LINKSOFF"
      document.all.item(cellBk).style.backgroundColor = "#0000FF"   ' SET CELL
BACKGROUND COLOUR BLUE           
      ELSE
      document.all.item(menuObj).className = "LINKSON"               ' OPEN MENU   
      document.all.item(cellBk).style.backgroundColor = "#0000FF"  ' SET CELL
BACKGROUND COLOUR light blue        
      END IF
      END SUB
      -->
      </Script>

You can check out the complete source at www.pssbeveiliging.nl

If you want to know more don't hescitate to contact me. I hope you solve it fast
and that I will hear soon from you!

Your sincerely,

Wytse Zwikker from Holland

Comment 1

[Patrick]

The problem lies in the document.all that you used. Replace it by
document.GetElementById and it'll work

In 1998, both IE and Netscape came with their version 4, to do what you try to
do, Netscape introduced document.layer and IE introduced document.all.
Both where not ratified by the ECMA recoomendations for Javascript. For this the
document.GetElementById was introduced. This is the standard and is supported by
all browsers since 1998. 

IE [and opera] still support document.all for backwards compatibility, but the
tag itself should not be used in web sites anymore. 

I hope this helps.

This is a Tech Evang issue, moving it Dutch Tech Evang and reassigning
adding URL field: www.pssbeveiliging.nl
Changing summary, replaced "Java" by "Javascript"
Confirming

Comment 2

[Patrick]

also adding URL to summary.

Comment 3

[timeless]

[e-mail]: close, but wrong standards body, ECMA
doesn't care about DOM, that's a w3c thing.

Comment 4

[Patrick]

Darn :o
Removing me from CC:list [i'm monitoring [e-mail] already]

Comment 5

[Erik Fabert]

Ehm, people, are you blind? This is VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting
Edition), not JavaScript. I don't think there is any real interest in
implementing that in Mozilla.

Comment 6

[Patrick]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Ehm, people, are you blind? This is VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting
> Edition), not JavaScript.

Erik, the reporter, who's also seems to be the site's web master reported this
under JavaScript Console, with "Java" in the summary. Hence the confusion.

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.

Comment 8

[Patrick]

Site appears to be dead now.