Trouble with list index in NN7

Sorry for the newbie question

[Kenton]

Hi

I have a for loop that runs perfectly well under IE6 but does nothing under Netscape 7.1 and I was wondering if there's a work around.

I have a list called region on a form and I'm passing the form as the parameter "thisform".

During debug I've found that the script just stops at thisform.region(idx).selected - no error - just stops.

Here's the piece of code that's failing:
===========================

for (idx = 0; idx < thisform.region.length ; idx++)
 {if (thisform.region(idx).selected == true)
  {regions ++
  };
 }

===========================

any ideas
Thanks

[Bernard Marx]

IE allows you to access some collections via ( ) notation, rather than [ ]. Netscape doesn't. So all you need to do is change (idx) to [idx]:

var idx, region = thisform.regions
  for (idx = 0; idx < region.length ; idx++) 
    if (region[idx].selected) 
      regions ++ 
/* maybe more 'correct':
region.options[idx]
// or
region.options.item(idx) //!
*/

[Kenton]

Thanks Heaps Bernard!

I should have known the problem was with IE not NN

[Bernard Marx]

MS doesn't need me to fight it's battles, but...
I think the problem doesn't lie with IE, rather (ahem) somewhere else ;)

..but seriously now, IE has inbuilt backward-compatibility with old methods, and features a number of convenience properties etc. Its standards support could be described as "not what it could be", but it's not that bad. In our case, IE wasn't guilty of anything other than offering an alternative.

The problem comes when people (me included) learn the IE-only techniques first, without realising (or being informed) that they are proprietary.