document.write overwriting document ???

[mr_than]

Hi there, this is the weirdest thing I have ever seen. I have this script which is mostly dynamically generating the entire page to create a dynamic menu. The actual DHTML menu script I'm using is one that I've edited and added to from webmonkey.

In an attempt to make it a little for those updating it to do so easily, and because it is a very structured page I thought I'd have a go at dynamically generating the HTML for it... almost all of the page is created with a document.write statements which use data from a user defined object that represents a menu.

Anyway, when I run the thing in IE (NN isn't quite happening yet, seems to like crashing sometimes) and look at the code of the page after the obligitaory error messages I see that all MY code has been overwritten with the output of the script (which I must admit seems to be pretty right ) with addition of a space between every character and all the CTRL/LF's as well. In doing this it deletes all the functions and just about everything else that makes it work. I am completely stumped.

To add to the problem, some of the scoping of the variables seems to be wrong. Is an object member with the same name distinct from a normal document var?? I would have thought yes but I seem to be having a problem with that too.

The way things are going I think I will just create this page statically but any input into these goings on would be appreciated.

here is a link to the file:

http://www.cqnet.com.au/~user/fitzhood/menu/

PS. Sorry about the messy first post.

[creole]

Two things...

1) If you havea large chunk of code such as this, you might consider posting a LINK to it instead of posting the entire codebase.

2) Would you mind going in and taking off the <code> tags so that it does not bust the page width? It's perfectly acceptable to have the code wrap in the interest of people reading the page.