[jon31]

Hello folks,

I've written what I thought was a very simple javascript function, but it doesn't seem to work with Firefox. Works great with Safari though. Can someone take a look and tell me if they see the problem?

<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">

function insertPhoto() {
var imgKEY = entry.u_photo_list.options[entry.u_photo_list.selectedIndex].value;
entry.u_content.value = entry.u_content.value + " [photo:" + imgKEY + "]";
}

</SCRIPT>

Anyone see the problem? It just doesn't seem to execute in Firefox.

Thanks!
Jon Marus

[Millennium]

Have you tried looking in Firefox's JavaScript Console? It's under the Tools menu, and it can provide useful information. Use the Clear button to empty out its messages first, and then try to load the page. Tell us what it has to say; it might help.

[jon31]

Oh, i was not aware of the javascript console, how handy. It's getting me the error:

Entry is not defined.

Does that help?

[jon31]

Wait, entry is the name of the form. Hmm..

Maybe I'm linking to it improperly with my Javascript.

[jon31]

Ok, looks like all I was missing was "document.". Silly me. Thanks for your help! The javascript console really sped things up.

[Millennium]

Firefox's JavaScript tools are great for this sort of thing. It's why I tend to do JavaScript stuff in Firefox/Mozilla first; I use it to weed out basic errors in my code, and then once that's done I test it in other browsers and tweak it if I have to. It makes things go a lot faster..

Mozilla has the console too, if you prefer to use that. Safari has something similar, but it's pretty well-hidden. You have to enable the Debug menu, then tell it to log JavaScript errors, then open Console.app (not to be confused with Terminal.app) and look for the errors there.