Create object tag in javascript

[whitelined]

Hi,

I'm trying to create an 'object' element. I'm using the following code
as a test:

window.onload = function()
{
var obj = document.createElement('object');
obj.type = 'text/html';

obj.data = 'test.html';
document.getElementById('content').appendChild(obj);
}

It works fine is Firefox, but not in IE. In IE, the DOM explorer shows
the 'object' has been created, and attached to the content div, but
nothing is displayed. Does anyone know why?

Thanks for any help

Regards

Aaron

 

[Joost Diepenmaat]

It works fine is Firefox, but not in IE. In IE, the DOM explorer shows
the 'object' has been created, and attached to the content div, but
nothing is displayed. Does anyone know why?

IE's <object> support is very basic and doesn't support loading HTML.

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/?chapter=Object+Tags

The situation may have improved on IE 7. I haven't tested it.

 

[whitelined]

IE's <object> support is very basic and doesn't support loading HTML.

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/?chapter=Object+Tags

The situation may have improved on IE 7. I haven't tested it.

Thanks for the quick reply. Looks like I'm going to have to make a
class that'll produce an object for FF and other supporting browsers,
and iframe for IE. I did test my code in IE7, and it didn't like it.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

It works fine is Firefox, but not in IE. In IE, the DOM explorer shows
the 'object' has been created, and attached to the content div, but
nothing is displayed. Does anyone know why?

IE's <object> support is very basic and doesn't support loading HTML.

http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/?chapter=Object+Tags

The situation may have improved on IE 7. I haven't tested it.
[...]

Thanks for the quick reply. Looks like I'm going to have to make a
class that'll produce an object for FF and other supporting browsers,
and iframe for IE. I did test my code in IE7, and it didn't like it.

There are no classes in your targeted environments, and there is no good
reason not to use an `iframe' element everywhere. Besides, you would have a
hard time telling user agents apart:

http://pointedears.de/scripts/test/whatami


Please trim your quotes:

http://www.jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/clj_posts.html#ps1Post


PointedEars

 

[whitelined]

There are no classes in your targeted environments, and there is no good
reason not to use an `iframe' element everywhere. Besides, you would have a
hard time telling user agents apart:

I'm being anal and trying to stick to the xhtml strict standard, so no
iframes. I've created a class, it works in opera, FF, IE, safari, so I'm
happy.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

I'm being anal and trying to stick to the xhtml strict standard, so no
iframes. I've created a class, it works in opera, FF, IE, safari, so I'm
happy.

Ignorance is bliss until it kicks you in the back.


PointedEars