Can someone help me with this code, please?

**cliffgs** · Sep 29, 2003, 15:42

Hi

I have this JavaScript which seems to work OK in NN 7.x on the Mac but refuses to even do anything on IE on the Mac.

To see what I am trying to do, please goto www.c-c-strange.biz, go to the Photographs page and then the Christchurch link.

The caption to the right of the photo is currently a jpeg, I want to change it to html.

As I say, this works in Netscape:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Christchurch Scenes</title>

<removed style setting to save space>

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">

</script>

</head>
<body>

<div id="navcontainer">
<ul id="navlist">
<li><a href="../index.html">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="../photographs.html">Photographs Index</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="picbox">
<img id="mypic" src="02.jpg" alt="" width="255" height="383" border="1" />
</div>

/*<div id="capbox">
<iframe src="Cap02.html" id="captxt" width="300" height="389" frameborder="no"></iframe>
</div>
*/
<div id="navbuttons">
<a href="JavaScript:slideshowBack()"><<Back | </a>
<a href="JavaScript:slideshowNext()">Next>></a>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Any help for this newbie would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Cliff Strange
TypeShop Limited
Christchurch
New Zealand

**Aska** · Sep 29, 2003, 16:07

Tested the page in Mozilla and IE. Like you said it doesn't work in IE but works okay in Mozilla. When I press "Next" on IE an error message shows up saying that "Interval" is undefined

Code:

function rotateImage(place, placeCap) {
  var new_image = getNextImage();
  document[place].src = new_image;
  var new_cap = getNextCap();
  document[placeCap].src = new_cap;
  var recur_call = "rotateImage('"+place+"')";
  timerID = setTimeout(recur_call, interval); // this line!
}

Try putting this line before the timerID = ... code:

Code:

  var interval = 15000;

Hope that helps.

**cliffgs** · Sep 29, 2003, 16:23

Thanks, I will take note of that and change it if I have to stick with the existing setup. But that code is from the current way I am doing things. It is the code that I posted in my original post that is the real problem - because I would really like to make the captions html and not jpegs.

Thanks

Cliff

**Aska** · Sep 29, 2003, 16:37

Oops, I just assumed that they were the same code. My apologies.

BTW, what exactly isn't working in IE? I noticed that you have the caption text loader code commented out...

If it's the caption loader, you may like to try giving the <iframe> a name attribute e.g. <iframe name="captxt" id="captxt"></iframe> and then in your javascript do something like:

Code:

 document.mypic.src=eval("image" + num+ ".src" );
window.open( eval( 'text'+num), 'captxt'); // this is the new code

Cheers~

**cliffgs** · Sep 29, 2003, 17:04

Thanks Aska! That was the clue I needed.

I gave the iframe a name as well as an id, and it worked (with my existing code).

I had commented out the code to try and resolve what wasn't working, and I unfortunately forgot to uncomment it when I posted it to this forum.

But your suggestion of using name as well as id made it work :-)))

Is there a good place to find out about all the differences in JavaScript between browsers. I now find it doesn't work so well in either Safari or Opera. But I think I could track that down if I had some reference material.

Many thanks for your help.

Cliff
TypeShop Limited
Christchurch
New Zealand

**Aska** · Sep 29, 2003, 17:12

Glad to help~

Good reference if you are after a list of functions:
http://www.devguru.com/Technologies/...ipt_index.html

This site shows what works in what browsers (click on the links on the right hand side of the page) - however doesn't say much about browsers other than IE/NN.
http://www.irt.org/xref/index.htm

I'd be interested if other people knows of any site that lists/compares the differences in JavaScript/DOM across different browsers.

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