HI Jon, can you export your page content to www.betasprings.com (username: host, password: dnnhost) so I can take a look at it and try to duplicate the issue with Firefox 3.0? Please send me URL link when you have it set up. By the way, put it in the Dynamic Forms section somewhere. Thanks. -- David

Hi David,

I created a test page and uploaded the form.  However, it is now encountering scripting errors and not working in any browser.

In case it helps, the original form can be viewed here.

Thanks

Hi Jon, you mean all of a sudden, the javascript isn't working on any browser? Did you change any script / settings? -- David

Sorry for the ambiguity.  I didn't change anything and the form is still working the same on my original site as it was when I posted this question.

What I'm saying is that it is behaving differently on your beta site (which is the exported/imported form) than it is on the original site.

Original site = still works fine in IE and Chrome, no calculations in Firefox.

Betasprings site = no calculations in any browser, scripting errors in IE

HI, sorry I haven't had the chance to debug the issue. However, it's strange. I think maybe there's some setting in the browser setting to cause this strange behavior. When I have time, I'll revisit this problem. -- David

Jon,

Hi. Well each browser can render client side events differently, this is often why JavaScript might have seperate functions for IE VS FireFox VS Safari etc (for example the Drag/Drop feature of Dynamic Forms requires FireFox or IE and will not currently support IE8 or Safari until the next release. Because of this it can be difficult to debug the exact reason and we would have to know the exact JavaScript being used etc... In your case I see the checkbox group and the FireFox issue, very weird though as I know we have many clients using this client side event for the check box group and I looked at the source of your page VS our page on form demo 20 (I am assuming this is where you also got this?). Anyway, they appear to be calling the same names and so forth so not sure why this is happening.

A few thoughts...

A good thing to do with JavaScript it to install FireFox FireBug. This will show you the exact issue its having with your JavaScript, when I go to your page in FireFox it shows me... "GrandTotal is not defined". I am not sure exactly where you are calling the same function call but I would probably take out each client side event or section, keep in mind that a single error in JavaScript sometimes can stop other JavaScript from rendering at all. I would also refer back to Demo 20.

Not sure what happened with the test page you created with JavaScript, its running on the upcoming 3.0 beta so I think the issue is that it didn't update the JavaScript file after the import. I had to go into the custom JavaScript fie and choose 'Update JavaScript' and after that it worked. I also notice that the calcuation first worked there in FireFox as well, but then after a second it didn't. My thoughts on that are that you probably have a question event setup which causes a postback and that can interfere with JavaScript. The way around that is to make sure you have the client side event also in the 'Initial JavaScript' section.

So I would check some of those items... You are really close but sometimes JavaScript can be very touchy.

-Chad

Jon... I think I have your answer! I am not directly sure why it would work on some sites and not others but we had another client running into this and I was able to research it more. In the mean time I fixed the issue with Google Chrome and Drag/Drop and also Safari with Drag/Drop for the upcoming 3.0 version of Dynamic Forms!

So... Basically the deal is that some browsers can let you define the inner HTML with just something like TotalCombo.innerHTML = 'test'; etc... But for FireFox you need to have it wrapped around the document.getElementById (careful, its case sensative)!

So... Instead of...
TotalCombo.innerHTML = 'Stuff';

Try
document.getElementById('TotalCombo').innerHTML = 'Stuff';


Hope this fixed you up!


-Chad