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[RESOLVED] getelementbyid().innerhtml object doesn’t support this property or method…

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Mar 25.2006

My page works perfectly in Firefox and Safari, but in internet explorer I get an ‘object doesn’t support this property or method’ error.

[CODE]
previous = document.getElementById(‘previous’).innerHTML;
[/CODE]

This is the line that is causing the “error”.

Any help greatly appreciated.

<–EDIT–>
Found a solution, changed to:

[CODE]
[b]var[/b] previous = document.getElementById(‘previous’).innerHTML;
[/CODE]

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@phpnoviceMar 26.2006 — ...and, for everyone else, the reason is because the first example is attempting to create a global variable which is in conflict with the original HTML element when naming such elements by ID in IE. The second example is a fine [U]work-a-round[/U] to this siuation [B][I][U]if[/U][/I][/B] this is used [U]inside[/U] of a function. Outside of a function, there might still be a problem.

The actual solution is to not use such a duplicate naming convention.

Cheers.
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