Question

This jsFiddle example works in Google Chrome, but in Internet Explorer then when the close icon is clicked the browser removes the pop-up element but results in the text ‘none’ being displayed in the browser window. Please explain how I can resolve this issue.

HTML:

<div id="popup">
    <!-- Close popup link -->
    <a href="javascript:document.getElementById('popup').style.display='none';">X</a>
</div>

Answer 1

Use onclick for the event handler instead of href http://jsfiddle.net/AE2X3/4/

<div id="popup">
        <a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('popup').style.display='none';return false;" id="close_popup"></a>
        <p>This is a pop-up.</p>
</div>