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Update HTML DOM Tutorial


jesh

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It had been a few months since I was faced with dynamically creating a drop down menu using the DOM so I turned (as I always do) to the tutorials on the site - specifically here:http://www.w3schools.com/htmldom/met_select_add.aspThe solution, as it is presented, doesn't work cross-browser. I suggest updating it to something like this:BEFORE:

function insertOption()  {  var y=document.createElement('option');  y.text='Kiwi'  var x=document.getElementById("mySelect");  try	{	x.add(y,null); // standards compliant	}  catch(ex)	{	x.add(y); // IE only	}  }

AFTER:

function insertOption(){	var y = document.createElement('option');	y.appendChild(document.createTextNode('Kiwi'));	var x = document.getElementById("mySelect");	x.appendChild(y);}

This way it'll work, at least, on the PC using Firefox 2.0, IE 6.0, Opera 9.1 and on the Mac using Firefox 1.5 and Safari (didn't check the version). The solution, as currently presented, doesn't work at all in Safari.

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