Help with javascript code for IE6

[adammc]

Hi guys,

the following code (radio button) does not show / hide div as done in Firefix /IE8

Is there any way I can get it to work?
Or maybe pure css?

<script language="javascript">

function show(nam) {
	if(nam == 'yes') {
		
		document.getElementById('description').style.display = 'none';
		
		
	} else  {
		
		document.getElementById('description').style.display = '';
	}

}
</script>
			
			
		
			
<tr>
	<td colspan="3" height="20" align="center"><span class="brown3"><STRONG>Same as above? </STRONG></span>
	<input type="radio" name="sameaddress" value="Yes" checked onclick="return show('yes');">Yes
	<input type="radio" name="sameaddress" value="No" onclick="return show('no');">No</td>
</tr>

<tr><td colspan="2" height="20"></td></tr>


	<tr>
	<td colspan="2" height="80" id="description" style="display:none;">
	<table width="100%" align="left" cellpadding="3" class="infobox" >
      <tr>
        <td align="left" class="text"><span class="brown3">Delivery Name</span></td>
        <td><div align="left">
            <input name="dname" type="text" class="username" value="" size="35" />
        </div></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td align="left" class="text"><span class="brown3">Delivery Address</span></td>
        <td><div align="left">
            <input name="daddress" type="text" class="username" value="" size="35" />
        </div></td>
      </tr>
     
      <tr>
        <td align="left" class="text"><span class="brown3">City</span></td>
        <td><div align="left">
            <input name="dcity" type="text" class="username" value="" size="35" />
        </div></td>
      </tr>
    
          </table></td></tr>

[Mittineague]

It may have something to do with using tables, but try using a "name" as well as the "id".

[adammc]

thanks for the reply, tried adding a 'name' to the td cell. didnt work

Can anyone pleeeeease help?

[paul_wilkins]

What browsers are you having trouble with? I've found that that above code b itself has trouble, but when you wrap the code inside table tags, that it works fine.

[adammc]

Hi Paul,

IE6, I have had quite a few customers complaining that it didnt work.

[paul_wilkins]

IE6 is dead and buried now. Even Microsoft says that you shouldn't be using it.

When things get tricky for IE6, you can just use the HTML/CSS design that your design starts from (yours does work in a non-scripted environment, right? It's called progressive enhancement) and use conditional comments to apply scripting to IE when it's greater than IE6

However - I have pulled down IETester and confirmed that your above code when wrapped in a table does work in IE6.

Further assistance will most likely involve access to a real-live web page that's up online.

[adammc]

You appear to be right, Itested this code above only wrapped in a table and it does work. However when used with existing page it doesnt.

Could a style sheet be causing this to not work?

td {
font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:10px; color:#715C55; line-height:11px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:normal;
}

or another reference overriding the display (none)?

[paul_wilkins]

We would need to be able to take a look at the existing page itself, to discover what else is causing the problem.

[adammc]

try this one:
url removed

Tried it in IE tester and 'deliver address' shid/show fields wont work.

[paul_wilkins]

try this one:
http://www.ecowoodentoys.com.au/test%20ie/test.html

Tried it in IE tester and 'deliver address' shid/show fields wont work.

Thanks. I see that you have a meta name called "description". IE also includes these named elements in its id search. Crazy, but there you go.

Either remove the meta description, or rename the id="description" within the body to something else.

[adammc]

OMG! Whooooo Hooo!
That was it!

Thank you soooooo much, I was going a little crazy there

[paul_wilkins]

Too true, IE's bugs does that to people.

Congrats.