Yep... all wrapped up in a nice window.onload = function () {}
Thanks for the heads up on that... found that one early on when I did the
ajax form generator. :-)
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Walter Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can I also assume that you have either wrapped your listener function in a
> dom:loaded listener, or have placed it inside a script block BELOW the ajzip
> element?
>
> That's another reason why it might not work in some cases, although I would
> be surprised if it worked in any browser if the listener was defined in the
> DOM before the element it was supposed to listen to.
>
> http://jsbin.com/odusi5/3
>
> Walter
>
>
> On Jun 13, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Phil Petree wrote:
>
> Walter you made me doubt myself... LOL I've been integrating this new code
>> with the old form and the id's are different in the old form but I had made
>> those changes.
>>
>> Event.observe('ajzip', 'keyup', cities);
>> <label class='column' id='labzip' for='ajzip'>5 Digit Zip:</label><input
>> type='text' name='zip' size='5' maxlength='5' id='ajzip' class='required
>> validate-digits'>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Walter Davis <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> Does your field have the ID attribute set to 'zip'? If it's working in IE,
>> that's a strong bet that it doesn't, but that it does have the name set to
>> 'zip'. Element.getValue() and $F() need a valid (properly-formed and unique
>> on the page) ID for their magic to happen. If you can't add an ID to the
>> input, you can pass a more elaborate selector like document.forms[0].zip
>> (without surrounding quotes, naturally) into the function. $() will work
>> from an object or an ID, but it won't work with just a name, except in IE,
>> which has a serious bug in that corner.
>>
>> Walter
>>
>>
>> On Jun 13, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Phil Petree wrote:
>>
>> In Firefox 3.6.16
>>
>> I have an Event.observe('ajzip', 'keyup', cities); and the first line of
>> which tests to see if I have 5 digits entered in the zip code field and if
>> so it makes an ajax call... works great in IE.
>> When I press and release a key, my function "cities" gets called, it tests
>> the length of zip and then jumps into prototype.js on line 4064 where it
>> attempts to execute the following lines:
>>
>> 1) getValue: function(element) {
>> 2) element = $(element);
>> 3) var method = element.tagName.toLowerCase();
>> 4) return Form.Element.Serializers[method](element);
>> When line 1 gets called, element is set to "zip"; line 2 returns null and
>> line 3 throws an "Element is null" error!
>>
>> Like I said, this all works fine in IE. Any ideas?
>>
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