Not sure if this'll do anything, but you should prolly use if(body === "")
instead of if(body == "") because "comparisons against null, 0, true, false,
or an empty string allowing implicit type conversion".
vincehofmeister wrote:
>
>
> Ok, So my code is running fine under FF2, no problems. However, IE7 is
> a different story. The only thing that seems to be working under IE7
> in all of my jQuery code is this...
>
>
>
> Now... all of this following code works under FF2 PERFECTLY... and I
> feel like its something simple I am doing wrong under IE7 with this
> code:
>
>
> $(document).ready(function() {
>
> $("form#add_comment").submit(function(){
>
> //function for ajax comment system
> var body = $("#body").val();
> var maxCharacters = 500;
> if(body == "")
> {
> //if the comment body is empty, do nothing
> $("#comment_error").html("Oops, please enter a
> comment...");
> $("#comment_error").show("medium");
> return false;
> }
> else if(body.length > maxCharacters)
> {
> $("#comment_error").html("Whoops, a comment can only be
> 500
> characters long!");
> $("#comment_error").show("medium");
> return false;
> }
> else
> {
> //send an ajax post request to the server
> $.post("/nzbs/add_comment", {
> 'data[Comment][body]' : $("#body").val(),
> 'data[Comment][nzb_id]' : $("#nzb_id").val(),
> }, function(data)
> {
> //callback function after post request
> $("div.add_comment_container").hide();
> $("p.empty").hide();
> $("div.comments").append(data);
> }
> );
> return false;
> }
> });
>
> //controls the image to be shown during ajax request
> $("div#show_on_ajax").ajaxStart(function(){
> $(this).show();
> });
> //controls the image to be hidden after the ajax request is
> complete
> $("div#show_on_ajax").ajaxStop(function(){
> $(this).hide();
> });
>
>
> //hides the download link after it is finished completing
> $("a#download_link").click(function(){
> $(this).hide();
> $("td#download_td").html("Downloading file...");
>
> });
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> });
>
>
>
>
> //function that controls viewing more comments
> function comment_request(nzb_id){
>
> $.get("/nzbs/view_more_comments/"+nzb_id,
> function(data){
> $("a#view_rest_link").hide();
> $("div.comments").append(data);
> });
>
> }
>
> //function that determines how many characters are left when posting a
> comment
> function characterCount(){
>
> var body = $("#body").val();
> var maxCharacter = 500;
> var charactersLeft = 500 - body.length;
>
> if(charactersLeft <= 0)
> {
> var charactersLeft = "0";
> }
>
> $("span.character_count").html(charactersLeft);
> }
>
>
>
> function checkAll(){
> $("input.check_change").attr("checked", "on");
> }
>
> function uncheckAll(){
> $("input.check_change").removeAttr("checked", "on");
> }
>
>
>
>
> Now, I attempted to use Firebug Lite under IE7 to help diagnose the
> problem, but the page would throw an error saying the page cannot be
> loaded and IE must close. So in the status bar after loading the page
> without Firebug Lite it says error on page and here is the information
> it gives...
>
> Line: 28
> Char 3
> Error: Unexpected Identifier, string, or number
> Code: 0
>
>
>
> I have also gotten IE to throw some sort of error about an unexpected
> object or something.
>
> It is also important to note that under FF2 and using firebug 0 errors
> show up. I think my code is fine... is something wrong with IE7 that
> would render all of this code useless?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
>
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