problems with write() writeln() on several browsers

[silverdeath]

I dinamically created a text string, which is:

imStr = "<DIV ID=elBGim STYLE='position:absolute;left:0;top:106;height:100%;z-index:-2'><IMG NAME='imBG' BORDER=0 SRC=images/background.gif WIDTH=781 HEIGHT=1003></DIV>"

but when viewing in firefox or Netscape (it works in ie) this div and its within image won`t appear either with document.write() or document.writeln(). why might this be? a little erlier in the same function I wrote another line and it worked.

any hints to solve this?

 

[cLFlaVA]

hints:

show the code that you're using. like, more of it than what you've shown. you're not even showing your document.write call.

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[tsuji]

>[tt]z-index:-2[/tt]
Change it to non-negative number to show.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You should also change "top:106" to "top:106px" - Firefox is a lot stricter about missing unit specifiers than IE.

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[silverdeath]

thanks BillyRayPreachersSon and specially tsuji, the z-index set to 0 made it work. it was a CSS incompatibility problem, rather than a programming one.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

it was a CSS incompatibility problem, rather than a programming one.

I would say quite the opposite - it looks like a programming problem (i.e. a problem with your code) rather than a CSS compatibility one.

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[silverdeath]

dan, which is the problem with my code?

it *was* a CSS compatibility problem, since it solved when setting the z-index to a non-negative number.

the only code once having the given variable value was
writeln(imStr);

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

At the end of the day, it's all a matter of perspective / opinion, so don't worry too much about it.

But to explain what I meant anyway ;o)... the CSS you gave was your code, and as the problem lay in your CSS code, then I think it quite reasonable to say that the problem was a programming one.

To say it was a CSS incompatibility issue really implies that the fault was in the use of the negative number - whereas it was not. Using negative z-indexes is perfectly acceptable, even in Firefox, if you understand how they work WRT z-indexes on other elements around them (including the body).

Hope this clarifies what I meant,
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