Uncaught typeerror

[Wider]

Hi,
i'm tring for hours to correct this simple script:

    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	function music(act, id, dis) {
		if(dis.length <= 1) { var s = 'non impostato'; } else { var s = '<a href="storage/music/' + dis +'" target="_blank">' + dis + '</a>'; }
		if(act == 'new') {
			document.getElementById('music' + id).innerHTML = s + ' &bull; <input type="file" name="music" /> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="music(\'back\', ' + id + ', \'' + dis + '\');">Non cambiare</a>';
		}
		else {
			document.getElementById('music' + id).innerHTML = s + ' &bull; <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="music(\'new\', ' + id + ', \'' + dis + '\');">Cambia musica</a>';
			}
	}
    </script>

Javascript says:
Uncaught typeerror: object is not a function
General HTML code:

    <form action="/ad/pubsis/pubsis.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
      <table>
        <tr>
          <td>1</td>
          <td><div id="music30">non impostato &bull; <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="music('new', '30', '0');">Cambia musica</a></div></td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </form>

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Now i found that if i remove

<input type="file" name="music" />

from code, the script works well.
What can i do to fix that?

[aj_nsc]

Some browsers - cough, IE - might take the name attribute of certain elements and make them global variables.

So what's happening is when the file input with name music element is created, then window.music refers to an DOM element and not a function.

Just give your file input a different name.

What browsers are giving you this problem, by the way?

EDIT: Looking at this thread in stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3...with-name-attr) you might be able to use the same name attribute if you modify your function to look like this:

var music = function(act, id, dis) {
 /* your code here */
}

[Wider]

yes: it's always a good approach with machines try to change names, but all this time lost made me too angry to think. so... i lost a day of work just for a name.
(just for fun: IE detects the problem but script worked the same... chrome stops execution instead)

however, my theory is confirmed. scopes suck.

[aj_nsc]

So....does that mean the problem is fixed?

[Wider]

yes thank you