Netscape does not fire onChange!

[Frowning Freezer]

I have a function in an external javascript file which I fire from an
onChange event in a <SELECT> tag. Everything works fine in IE but not
in Netscape/Mozilla/Opera. This is my onChange statement:

onChange="division_changed(this.value);"

If I put an alert() in the external script (outside any function) it
executes fine. If I put an alert directly in onChange it also works
fine! But this function that I'm calling simply won't get started.

What do I do to get it to work in these alternative browsers?

 

[Lee]

Frowning Freezer said:

I have a function in an external javascript file which I fire from an
onChange event in a <SELECT> tag. Everything works fine in IE but not
in Netscape/Mozilla/Opera. This is my onChange statement:

onChange="division_changed(this.value);"

If I put an alert() in the external script (outside any function) it
executes fine. If I put an alert directly in onChange it also works
fine! But this function that I'm calling simply won't get started.

What do I do to get it to work in these alternative browsers?

It would help to see your code.

Obviously the onChange handler is actually firing, since defining it
as "alert()" works.

The last time I looked (which has been some time), Select controls didn't have a
"value" attribute in Netscape. It was just a shortcut added by Microsoft.

onchange="division_changed(options[selectedIndex].value)"
might work.

 

[Hywel]

I have a function in an external javascript file which I fire from an
onChange event in a <SELECT> tag. Everything works fine in IE but not
in Netscape/Mozilla/Opera. This is my onChange statement:

onChange="division_changed(this.value);"

If I put an alert() in the external script (outside any function) it
executes fine. If I put an alert directly in onChange it also works
fine! But this function that I'm calling simply won't get started.

What do I do to get it to work in these alternative browsers?

I just tried this in IE6, Firefox, Opera 7.something, Mozilla. The only
difference between any of them is that IE alerts nothing, but it still
does the alert. What is the Mozilla JavaScript console telling you?

<script>
function division_changed(value)
{
alert(value);
}
</script>

<form>
<select onChange="division_changed(this.value);">
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
<option>3</option>
</select>
</form>

 

[Mick White]

I have a function in an external javascript file which I fire from an
onChange event in a <SELECT> tag. Everything works fine in IE but not
in Netscape/Mozilla/Opera. This is my onChange statement:

onChange="division_changed(this.value);"

If I put an alert() in the external script (outside any function) it
executes fine. If I put an alert directly in onChange it also works
fine! But this function that I'm calling simply won't get started.

What do I do to get it to work in these alternative browsers?

First, I would make sure my references were correct.

onchange="division_changed(this[this.selectedIndex].value);"

or more formally:

onchange="division_changed(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);

Mick

 

[Frowning Freezer]

I have a function in an external javascript file which I fire from an

onChange event in a <SELECT> tag. Everything works fine in IE but not
in Netscape/Mozilla/Opera. This is my onChange statement:

onChange="division_changed(this.value);"

If I put an alert() in the external script (outside any function) it
executes fine. If I put an alert directly in onChange it also works
fine! But this function that I'm calling simply won't get started.

What do I do to get it to work in these alternative browsers?

First, I would make sure my references were correct.

onchange="division_changed(this[this.selectedIndex].value);"

or more formally:

onchange="division_changed(this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);

Thanks, this made my day - together with Macromedia's MM_findObj
function.