Re: firefox and problems with getElementById

Andrea wrote:

> <form>
> <span id="write_html"></span>
> <button onclick="new_html();">Display html</button>

The problem is that button, according to the HTML 4 specification the
default for the button type is submit so with a conforming browser like
Mozilla the button executes the onclick handler and then submits the
form, with no action attribute set that means the page is reloaded.
   <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.5>
IE has its own rules about the default and makes it a simple click
button so in your example only the script is executed:
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/button.asp>
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/type_3.asp>

Use
   <button type="button"
or even
   <input type="button"
to get the same behavior in browsers.

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