AJAX: htmlfile: member not found
I got the above error when I was trying to assign a string like:
"color:Red;background-color:blue";
directly to the style property of an element, as such:
var td = document.createElement("td");
td.style = this._style; //style holds the string above
This caused the error that was something like htmlfile: member not found. This is because style is an object, and that doesn't work quite that way. I found this that has some more information on the subject: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/dombasics. Switching to:
var td = document.createElement("td");
td.setAttribute("style", this._style);
Works in FireFox and not IE 7. So the issue warrants additional investigation, but at least I'm a step further than I was before. As a side note, I also used the additional setup of using the cssText property, and checking for the type being a string, The cssText property is supported, but some browsers don't allow the value to be written to, and the value isn't always a string in some browsers. So by checking that the type of the property is a string first before assigning, this ensures a different exception isnt' thrown.
But that didn't work for me in IE 7 as well, while working in FireFox. If anyone has a better solution, please comment on this post.