Re: .js file garbled and unreadable(yet it works!)

"Byron" said
> I need to remove some items from a Javascript drop down menu coded
> by someone else. <snip> the code has no line breaks and
> the part of it that writes the menu's html is full of squares, making it
> very difficult to wade into and take out the parts I need to remove. For
> example, I can't tell where one menu item stops and another one starts.
> However, it still seems to work on the web site, despite all these funky
> characters.
>
> $Technology
%0px;
(154px;
)12
7;
+
> 2
4;
>;1
4;normal;normal3F3F3F
-
. EFEFEF
#36_

> _

/contact/contact_partners.aspself9px;
(5px;
)105px;
+1
4-
4;
%
> 0px
$Contact
!
>
> It's much much longer than that, but you get the idea.
> What's up?

The original author was probably working on a different platform than you
are. His or her linebreaks and who knows what other characters render as
those funky squares when viewed on your system. IIRC this happens when
translating from Linux to Windows. See if you can find out the name of the
menuwriting function, then load a page which uses it into your browser, and
type in the addressbar:

  javascript: document.open( 'text/plain' ); document.write( functionname );

That should give the complete code, correctly encoded for your system.

hth - if not, can you post the url to the .js file here?
ivo
http://4umi.com/web/javascript/
Received on Tue Oct 18 02:52:16 2005