[Laszlo-dev] problem with IE7 dhtml click divs

[Henry Minsky]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Max Carlson <max at laszlosystems.com> wrote:

> Does it really make sense to add subviews to an inputtext?  I guess since
> calendar does it we implicitly support this...
>
> I suspect changing back to a regular div will create other issues in IE.
>  Perhaps we need to look at the way the DOM hierarchy was before r14414...
>
> Are you sure appendChild() doesn't work for images?


It works in Firefox, but gives an error in IE7.



>
>
> Henry Minsky wrote:
>
>> This code is causing an error in IE7 DHTML, (
>> http://openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-8380), IE7 barfs when it tries to
>> add a child sprite to an inputtext, because the containerclickdiv is an
>> IMG, not a regular DIV.
>>
>> The error is showing up in the calendar demo, because there is this
>> subclass of inputtext which has views in it
>>
>> <class name="inputtextbox" extends="inputtext" bgcolor="white"> <!--
>> fgcolor="#535353"-->
>>    <view name="v_border" height="1"       bgcolor="black"
>> width="${parent.width}" />
>>    <view name="h_border" width="1"  y="1" bgcolor="black"
>> height="${parent.height -1}" />
>>
>>
>> The error happens in LzSprite#addChildSprite at this point
>>            this.__LZclickcontainerdiv.appendChild(
>> sprite.__LZclickcontainerdiv );
>>
>>
>> The code which creates the containerclickdiv for inputtext is here, maybe
>> it could create a "div' instead of 'img' class?
>>
>>  4255        max     if (this.quirks.fix_clickable) {
>>  4255        max         if (this.quirks.fix_ie_clickable) {
>>  14414        max             this.__LZclickcontainerdiv =
>> document.createElement('img');
>>  14414        max             this.__LZclickcontainerdiv.src =
>> lz.embed.options.serverroot + LzSprite.prototype.blankimage;
>>  14414        max             this.__LZclickcontainerdiv.className =
>> 'lzclickdiv';
>>  14414        max             this.__LZclickcontainerdiv.owner = this;
>>  3457        max         }
>>
>> --
>> Henry Minsky
>> Software Architect
>> hminsky at laszlosystems.com <mailto:hminsky at laszlosystems.com>
>>
>>
>>
> --
> Regards,
> Max Carlson
> OpenLaszlo.org
>



-- 
Henry Minsky
Software Architect
hminsky at laszlosystems.com
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