Prototype

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  John-David Dalton May 9th, 2008 @ 10:12 PM

  Are you using some other framework or Builder?

  I don't recognize your syntax.

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  Juriy Zaytsev May 9th, 2008 @ 11:18 PM

  • → State changed from “new” to “invalid”

  YAIEB (yet another IE bug)

  This page explains the issue: http://www.propertymaps.com/blog...

  in a nutshell: "appendChild" fails while "add" works, but "add" has its own problems. I'm not sure if we should "fix" this, as there are a couple of alternatives to accomplish this:

  .insert(new Element('option').update('foo'));
  .insert('<option>foo</option>');
  

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  Jason Borden May 10th, 2008 @ 12:45 AM

  My bad, I hadn't realized that "new Option" was a deprecated way of instantiating a Option object in recent DOM versions. I've been using old reference material I guess. Thanks for the answer.

  Jason

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  Tobie Langel May 10th, 2008 @ 11:01 AM

  Anyone located the specs for new Options ?

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  James Gurney July 3rd, 2008 @ 12:37 AM

  • → Tag cleared.

  I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but I'm running into the same exact problem when attempting to update an element which has been inserted by prototype. This only happens in IE (6 and 7). It works fine in Firefox (2 and 3).

  <form id="testForm">
  <input type="button" id="updateButton" value="Click me">
  </form>
  

  document.observe("dom:loaded", function() {
  	selectElement = new Element('select').update(new Element('option', {'value' : 0}).update('This is the first option'));
  	$('testForm').insert({top: selectElement});
  
  	addNewValue = function() {
  		selectElement.insert(new Element('option',{'value' : '1'}).update('This is a new option'));
  	}
  
  	$('updateButton').observe('click',addNewValue);
  });
  

  I've tried to simplify the test case as much as possible. Creating the select element in the html fixes the problem. Simply performing the insert() outside of the event also fixes the problem.

  This is with prototype 1.6.0