Question

I have a script that works fine in all browsers that I have tested so far (FF, Safari, camino, Chrome) but not in IE and I can’t figure out why. The IE 8 (windows 7) debug utility highlights this section of the script:

if(list[lineNum].getElementsByClassName("check")[0].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].getAttribute("title").search("Delete")==0)

and says:

Object doesn’t support this property or method

I thought perhaps that it might be that IE doesn’t like the list array so I added an explicit declaration at the beginning of the script

var list=new Array();

but i still get the same error.

I would really like to get this working on IE and would appreciate any help in doing so.

thanks

Answer 1

Internet Explorer doesn’t have native getElementsByClassName support. There’s a project that a lot of people use as an alternative, it’s available on Google Code here under the MIT license.

Your code would become something like (not tested, just an example):

if(getElementsByClassName("check", null, list[lineNum])[0].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].getAttribute("title").search("Delete")==0)

I would really recommend using jQuery, though. It’s built to make these things easy.