Re: [CSS|JS] questions

onetitfemme said the following on 4/30/2006 2:20 PM:
>>> Why is it that sometimes you must use inline styles? (I have tried
>>> doing it in may different ways)
>> Do a google search on "css specficity", but that's outside the scope of this group.
>> Matt Kruse wrote:
>> css specificity ...
> I wonder to which extent I could have conflicting CSS rules, since in
> my trials I used both classes and id selectors and found the same
> behavior. Also I post here in this group too, because JS and CSS do not
> always play well together when you dynamically play setting/(re)-/(un)-
> CSS properties with JS
> ..
> Here are the two examples, one with inline styles and the other with a
> CSS.
> ..
> // __ this one works!
> http://www.geocities.com/tekmonk2005/example02_inline.html
> ..
> // __ this other one, based on CSS-based styles, does NOT!
> http://www.geocities.com/tekmonk2005/example04_css.html
> ..
> Both pages validated (except for the unfinished form, which I complete
> dynamically and whose "action" you don't really need in this case)

If you complete it dynamically then completely create it dynamically.
But, you shouldn't say it validated, you should say "It validated before
I put it on Geocities".

> ..
> I need to understand this prob and fix it because I don't see any
> benefit in using inline styles

Then don't if you don't understand them.

> Also:
> ..
> How can you work around the "end tag for "..." which is not finished."
> types of errors?

End the tag, no more "end tag...." errors.

> The form element I need only in order to format the pop up and to use
> the id selector, in order to feed it in with. I need to complete the
> forms dynamically because I work on multilang sites

Then create the form dynamically as well.

myForm = document.createElement('form')

> ..
> Also there are ways to dynamically insert elements in a select box via
> "new Option(...)". How can you do the same thing with radio button or
> check boxes options in a form?

radioInput = document.createElement('input')
radioInput.type = "radio"

-- 
Randy
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