JavaScript on Macintosh issue

Problem in IE and Safari

[surfgatinho]

Hi
Trying to populate a drop down menu with dates. Works fine in Windows but not on Macs. Code is:

<script>document.write(week1.getDate() + " " + monthname[week1.getMonth()] + " " + week1.getYear());</script>

Placed between option tags in select object.

Any ideas
Thanks in advance
Chris

[BlobFisk]

Try:

<script type="text/javascript">

The Mac probably wants to know exactly what scripting language is being used.

[surfgatinho]

BlobFisk, thought you might have been on to something there, those attributes should be in there anyway really.
Unfortunately it didn't solve the problem. I checked it in Safari and IE on a Mac and slightly different output but both didn't parse the script properly and IE just spat out the raw code.

Any ideas?

[BlobFisk]

Have you tried put the script call in another part of your page to see if it works? It may be that it is between <option> tags....

I wonder if it could be something to do with your main script. Have you made sure that your variables (eg week1) are global, rather than local, variables?

What sort of error are you seeing?

[mikejson]

You could make your script print the option tags... instead of putting the option tags around the script. That would eliminate that as being the problem.

I would try your script printing and check your source code. Is it truly printing what you want it to print?

I think you may have a syntax error. Just check it out closely

[BlobFisk]

monthname[week1.getMonth()]

What is this doing?

[surfgatinho]

There's an array of English monthnames and this references the relevant one.
I'll try writing the entire select box in JavaScript and see what happens.
Unfortunately I only get to try this on a Mac every other day!

[BlobFisk]

What error are you getting?

[amznVibe]

Fire up Mozilla on the Mac, it has a very nice javascript console and debugger.

There are versions for os 8.6, 9 and X