309215 - attempt to use JavaScript to replace div innerHTML with menu won't work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Wendt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050422
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050422

My name is Kevin Wendt.  I am the webmaster for www.msa.umn.edu.  There is a
"fill-in" menu on the left side of the screen.  When you click on the
"INFORMATION" image/link, javascript should be invoked, replacing the
immediately following <div> with text in the form of a <ul> with several links.
 "RENTERS' SURVEY" and "LINKS" should do the same.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load URL
2.move cursor to "INFORMATION" image/link
3.click

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
Created an unordered list of links to other pages on the site (Committees,
Members of Forum, etc.)

Lack of use of this feature blocks surfers from navigating pages on site other
than home page.

I am the webmaster for this (D-1 University's student government) site.  I want
it to be Mozilla compliant (as it is the best browser ever).  Unfortunately,
this works in IE and not Mozilla/firefox.  Any help will be immediately
implemented.  But I'm a student and TA and an officer of the student government
here, etc.  I need some help figuring this out.  THANKS.

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Whatever you expect from us, with a current build you see this in the JavaScript
Console (it works there, but it won't work in FF 1.0.x or Mozilla 1.7.x):
Warning: Element referenced by ID/NAME in the global scope. Use W3C standard
document.getElementById() instead.
Source File: http://www.msa.umn.edu/scripts/
Line: 105
Your code directly references elements like this: toc.innerHTML, which is not a
standard way. Maybe read a bit under
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ie2mozgd/ under "General
cross-browser coding tips" or just google a bit around, basically all you got to
do is insert some if checks what a browser supports and then execute the given
method which works in (BrowserA) or (BrowserB).