[Laszlo-dev] problem with IE7 dhtml click divs

[P T Withington]

That's the issue.  IE barfs if you try to add a child to an IMG tag.

I guess for ie we'll need to have the clickdiv be a div and have the  
clickable img as a child to make this work?

On 2009-08-20, at 20:26EDT, Max Carlson 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?
>
> 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