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Visibility in NS 4 again.

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gottaski

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Can some kind soul out there please tell me why the javascript code below does not work. I have it working in IE and NS 6 (so i took out the code to keep the post shorter).

I'm really losing my mind here. Thanks.

<script language=&quot;javascript&quot;>
function hideFields(){
if(document.layers){
document.layers[&quot;layer1&quot;].visibility = &quot;hide&quot;;
document.layers[&quot;layer2&quot;].visibility = &quot;hide&quot;;
}

</script>
<html>
<head>
<meta NAME=&quot;GENERATOR&quot; Content=&quot;Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0&quot;>
<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF=&quot;..\sitemap.css&quot; TYPE=&quot;text/css&quot;>
</head>
<body onLoad=&quot;hideFields()&quot;>
<form name=&quot;form1&quot; action=&quot;advancedsearch.asp?action=find&quot; method=&quot;post&quot;>
<font class=&quot;whitebold&quot;>The two boxes below should be hidden!!!</font>
<br><br>
<div ID=&quot;layer1&quot; name=&quot;layer1&quot; style=&quot;position:absolute; left:5; top:105; font-family:verdana, geneva, arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; Color: white; z-index=1&quot;>Enter search text1:
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;sText&quot; size=&quot;28&quot;><br><br></div>
<div ID=&quot;layer2&quot; name=&quot;layer2&quot; style=&quot;position:absolute; left:5; top:105; font-family:verdana, geneva, arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; Color: white; z-index=2&quot;>Enter search text2:
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;sText2&quot; size=&quot;28&quot;><br><br></div>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot; name=&quot;submit&quot;>
</form>
</body>
</html>
 
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'visibility' is a property of the style object:

should be:

function hideFields(){
if(document.layers){
document.layers[&quot;layer1&quot;].style.visibility = &quot;hide&quot;;
document.layers[&quot;layer2&quot;].style.visibility = &quot;hide&quot;;
}


...or so I think...don't have NS4 here to test it. The only other peculiarity I remember about NS4 layers is that they have their own document object:

document.layers[0].document.forms[0].elementName; etc...

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if (!succeed) try();
-jeff
 
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You are wrong jemminger, [tt]style[/tt] object does not exist in Navigator 4.x

I dont really know what's the problem (the syntax seem to be right), look for JS errors: type &quot;javascript:&quot; in the address field after you load the page.
By the way, I recently noticed that you can use [tt]visible[/tt] and [tt]hidden[/tt] in Navigator 4.x like in all modern browsers instead of [tt]show/hide[/tt].

good luck
 
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The javascript error that is generated:

document.layers.layer1 has no properties.

not very helpful to me...anyone else?

thanks.
 
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