Javascript Inside document.write

Why won't this work...

[web_young]

Does anybody know why this code won't work? I'm getting an object expected error.

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
if (!exclude) {
 if (win&&ie) {document.write('<span id="xawmMenuPathImg_menu" style="position:absolute;top:-50px"><img name="awmMenuPathImg_menu" id="awmMenuPathImg_menu" src="./menu/awmmenupath.gif" alt=""></span><script type="text/javascript">var MenuLinkedBy="AllWebMenus [4]", awmBN="624"; awmAltUrl="";</script><script charset="UTF-8" src="./menu/menu.js" language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">awmBuildMenu();</script>');}
else if (mac&&saf) {document.write('<span id="xawmMenuPathImg_menu" style="position:absolute;top:-50px"><img name="awmMenuPathImg_menu" id="awmMenuPathImg_menu" src="./menu/awmmenupath.gif" alt=""></span><script type="text/javascript">var MenuLinkedBy="AllWebMenus [4]", awmBN="624"; awmAltUrl="";</script><script charset="UTF-8" src="./menu/menu_safari.js" language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">awmBuildMenu();</script>');}
}
//-->
</script>

[kaled]

I've never tried putting so much in a single write(). Can you write() multiple lines?

Are exclude, win and ie defined?

Have you tested the code before putting it in a write().

You should escape all / chars, thus
document.write('<\/span>');

Kaled.

[Fotiman]

Likewise:

<\/script>

I believe the closing script tag within the string is probably what's causing your problems.

[web_young]

I've tried the tips you guys gave (thanks for the help, btw). Still gives the same error. So I've tried simplifying it. The code works when it's not in document.write. I've tried the \/ idea, still didn't work. Let me know if you have any other ideas.

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write('<span id="xawmMenuPathImg-davidbraggteam_menu" style="position:absolute;top:-50px"><img name="awmMenuPathImg-davidbraggteam_menu" id="awmMenuPathImg-davidbraggteam_menu" src="./menu/awmmenupath.gif" alt=""></span>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript">var MenuLinkedBy="AllWebMenus [4]", awmBN="624"; awmAltUrl="";</script>');
document.write('<script charset="UTF-8" src="./menu/davidbraggteam_menu.js" language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript"></script>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript">awmBuildMenu();</script>');
//-->
</script>

[Fotiman]

Without seeing the code for building the menu, I don't know what more to tell you. Are you sure that it's not working? I notice you are absolutely positioning the menu with a top of -50px... could it be doing it off the screen? For example, can you remove that -50 setting and see if it works (in which case, it really worked all along, just somewhere off the screen).

[Rambo Tribble]

Unless your entire document.write is on one line, it must be appended across line breaks with the concatenation operator, as in:

document.write('stuff and such'+
'and further stuff and such'+
'so on and so forth'+
'ad nauseum');

[john_k]

Break up the word "script" in the script tags that are within the document.write:

</sc'+'ript>

and

<sc'+'ript language...