60335 - [document.layers] Cannot navigate to other hidden "tabs" created with "div" element

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect, P3)

Description

[Brent]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001114
BuildID:    2000111420

On main frame (http://www.k-statesports.com/headlines/index.html) of site, it
creates "tabs" for news headlines of each sport.  However, clicking on the tabs
will not show them.  The page is created with "div" element and hides the info
on other tabs.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Load page and try to click to a different tab that isn't the default to show.

Actual Results:  Nothing...it doesn't behave as intended.

Expected Results:  It should show the news headlines on the other tabs.  In
other words it should make the tab you click on "active" or visible and hide the
others.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The page uses the following Javascript function to get the div objects:

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v3.0
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length)
{
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++)
x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++)
x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document); return x;
}

This function assumes that a browser supports either document.layers or
document.all.  Mozilla supports neither, since both are non-standard.  The
function should be updated to use the W3C DOM function getElementByID.

Over to evangelism, updating summary.

Comment 2

[Marcelo Vanzin]

This is the standard Macromedia Dreamweaver function to find objects in pages.

Maybe someone should "evangelize" the people at Macromedia to release an update 
for this function for existing DWs??? I have patched this function where I work 
so it can find objects using the DOM also (works great in Mozilla and in 
Konqueror).

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

-> [e-mail] for my evangelism bugs.

removing the now-depreciated evangelism-related keywords.

setting platform to All.

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning evangelism bugs to [e-mail].

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

fixed!

Comment 6

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

All Evangelism Bugs are now in the Product Tech Evangelism. See bug 86997 for
details.

Comment 7

[Brant Gurganus]

Verified
2002022703/WinXP