JS/FormAPI order of execution

tobias

Hi there, this is with TS 6.7.1 on Solaris.

Does any of you have experience with the execution order of Javascript/FormAPI code in different browsers (in this case IE6/7 and Firefox)?

I have a DCT that contains a <container> with a number of sub-<container> elements. Depending on the selected option of a <select> item I want one of these sub-<container> elements to be displayed.
The <option> elements of the select-box are supposed to be generated dynamically. Therefore I created a function that iterates over all sub-<container>s and creates one <option> for each of them with the addOption() method. One of the options is marked as selected.
All this works fine, but when I later (immediately after creating the <option> list) try to determine which <option> was (pre-)selected as default, Firefox returns the correct <option> value, while IE returns null and a JS error.

Any ideas?

ISCBorisB

Hi there, this is with TS 6.7.1 on Solaris. Does any of you have experience with the execution order of Javascript/FormAPI code in different browsers (in this case IE6/7 and Firefox)? I have a DCT that contains a <container> with a number of sub-<container> elements. Depending on the selected option of a <select> item I want one of these sub-<container> elements to be displayed. The <option> elements of the select-box are supposed to be generated dynamically. Therefore I created a function that iterates over all sub-<container>s and creates one <option> for each of them with the addOption() method. One of the options is marked as selected. All this works fine, but when I later (immediately after creating the <option> list) try to determine which <option> was (pre-)selected as default, Firefox returns the correct <option> value, while IE returns null and a JS error. Any ideas?

Delay your code execution a bit. In TS Universe "Initiated" and "Loaded" are not always the same things:

// Initiate custom code upon FormInit
IWEventRegistry.addFormHandler("onFormInit", pre_init);

//---------------------------------------------------------------
function pre_init() {
   if ((typeof top.gIsInitialRender=="undefined") || (top.gIsInitialRender==true)) {
      setTimeout("pre_init()", 500);
   }
   else {
      init();
   }
}

//---------------------------------------------------------------
function init() {
   // Your Custom Init Function
   . . . 
}