Solution to "display:table-row" causing pain and suffering with IE

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

I recently came up against a sit­u­a­tion where I wanted to add rows to a table via javascript.

Not a prob­lem with jQuery, EXCEPT that my table rows were being added with 'style="display:block"'.

What's wrong with that, you ask? Well, in Fire­fox the row was being appended to the table but it looked all scrunched into the first cell like so:

OK, fine. Let's give it a dis­play prop­erty of "table-row." That should work, right? Yes, it works here but not in IE. IE hates this, in fact. IE wants to get a dis­play of "block."

The solu­tion turns out to be to set the dis­play value to an empty string. Then, each browser will give the row its default value and every­one is happy.

source: http://cormacscode.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/show-hide-table-row-in-firefox-versus-ie/

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Problem with input focus on Safari

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

I had a javascript hic­cup, and I think the solu­tion may be help­ful to others.

The basic setup is this:

Lim­ited space means no room for labels in a login form. So instead we used a pre­set value in the input ele­ments, like so:

 
<input value="Username" name="username" type="text" />
<input value="Password" name="password" type="text" />
 

Which looks like this:

The easy way to blank out the descrip­tive text is to use the onfo­cus event like so:

 
onfocus="this.value=''"
 

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Tags: ie, javascript, safari
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