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IE: Could not get the visibility property. Invalid argument.

28th April, 200821st April, 2010 Marcel Stör3 Comments

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer never fails to amaze me – coding JavaScript and CSS for the IE is quite a challenge. The other day I tried to show/hide a table based on the value of a dropdown box.

function hideUnhideDateFields() {
	var tarifScheme = document.getElementById("dropdownTarifscheme");
	var dateTable = document.getElementById("dateTable");
	if (tarifScheme &amp;&amp; tarifScheme.value == "") {
		dateTable.style.visibility = "collapse";
	} else {
		dateTable.style.visibility = "visible";
	}
}

function hideUnhideDateFields() {

var tarifScheme = document.getElementById("dropdownTarifscheme");

var dateTable = document.getElementById("dateTable");

if (tarifScheme && tarifScheme.value == "") {

dateTable.style.visibility = "collapse";

} else {

dateTable.style.visibility = "visible";

}

While this works flawlessly with browsers, the script crashes in IE: it complains about “Could not get […]

Generate PHP applications with PHPMaker

18th October, 2007 Marcel StörNo Comments

You: Generating PHP applications? You mean developing? I: No, I mean generating. As in using a GUI-controlled generator to define your application. As in no need to touch scripting code. For real. If I were a software sales person you’d have to be reluctant taking my statements at face value. But I’m not; I’m a […]

Fun with PHP form processing

30th August, 2007 Marcel StörNo Comments

While debugging a PHP script tonight I came across an extremely annoying PHP “feature”: it does not allow HTML input field names to contain dots and spaces. So, if you had a HTML form with an input field “do.it” <input name=”do.it” id=”do.it” type=”text” /> and were to process this form with PHP, PHP would report […]

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IE: Could not get the visibility property. Invalid argument.

Generate PHP applications with PHPMaker

Fun with PHP form processing