Question

I have this bit of code that is working in FF, Chrome, Safari, and even IE9. Naturally, it doesn’t work in IE8. It’s a show/hide on two divs using Javascript. I’m not terribly proficient with JS so any help would be appreciated.

Javascript function :

function showonlyone(thechosenone) {
  var subscriberinfo = document.getElementsByTagName("div");
  for(var x=0; x<subscriberinfo.length; x++) {
    name = subscriberinfo[x].getAttribute("class");
    if (name == 'subscriberinfo') {
      if (subscriberinfo[x].id == thechosenone) {
        subscriberinfo[x].style.display = 'block';
      } else {
        subscriberinfo[x].style.display = 'none';
      }
    }
  }
}

HTML code :

<ul class="options">
  <div class="subscriber-options">
    <a href="javascript:showonlyone('subscriberinfo1');" >Account</a>
  </div>
  <div class="subscriber-options">
    <a href="javascript:showonlyone('subscriberinfo2');" >Subscriber Options</a>
  </div>
</ul>
<!-- options -->
<div class="subscriberinfo" id="subscriberinfo1">Div #1</div>
<!-- subscriberinfo1 -->
<div class="subscriberinfo" id="subscriberinfo2" style="display: none;">Div #2</div>

Answer 1

Instead of getAttribute("class") have you tried className?

function showonlyone(thechosenone) {
  var subscriberinfo = document.getElementsByTagName("div");

  for(var x=0; x<subscriberinfo.length; x++) {
    name = subscriberinfo[x].className;  // <-- Here is the change
    if (name == 'subscriberinfo') {
      subscriberinfo[x].style.display = 
          (subscriberinfo[x].id == thechosenone) ? 'block' : 'none';
    }
  }
}