Does anyone know why this is, I am pretty sure I handled this in my if statement checking for browser type. I presume this is a bug? Anyone know of a workaround?
here is my code
here is my code
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function makeRequest(url) {
var http_request = false;
// Mozilla, Safari
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
}
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
try {
http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
} catch (e) {
try {
http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
} catch (e) {}
}
}
if (!http_request) {
alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
return false;
}
http_request.onreadystatechange = function() { alertContents(http_request); };
http_request.open('GET', url, true);
http_request.send(null);
}
function alertContents(http_request) {
if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
if (http_request.status == 200) {
// This is were we handle the response
var xmldoc = http_request.responseXML;
var myNodes = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('department')
//Extract Values using loop
for(var counter=0;counter<myNodes.length;counter++) {
var textvalue;
textvalue = myNodes.item(counter).firstChild.nodeValue;
addOption(textvalue,"");
}
} else {
alert('There was a problem with the request.');
}
}
}
// Function to Add Items to ListBox
function addOption(text, value) {
document.getElementById("department_list").add(new Option(text, value));
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="makeRequest('dept.xml')">
<form action="">
<div>
<select name="department_list">
<option>Dept list</option>
</select>
</div>
</form>
</body>
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