JavaScript in IE
After wrangling with this JavaScript code in IE which worked perfectly in Firefox (sound familiar?) I finally installed two things in my Windows virtual machine. First was a JS debugger and the other was a IE developer toolbar. The toolbar was pretty nifty and allowed me to examine the DOM objects that I was dynamically creating. What’s this? Why doesn’t IE see an ID and a name for this element? That’s because I capitalized them when I was adding them ‘
‘. Now, if I was starting from scratch I wouldn’t have never capitalized in the first place. I didn’t expect it to be a problem but apparently it is. Without it being lowercase, IE never finds the object when trying to access it. Solution: keep it all lowercase and definately use the JS debugger and IE developer toolbar when working with this browser.