Check that there isn't a comma at the end of the last item in your array. I had the same problem with autocomplete and it turned out that I had a comma at the end of the last item due to an oversimplified loop serverside to output the array.
IE [ 'item', 'item', 'item', ] will break in IE but not FF etc. you want [ 'item', 'item', 'item ] notice no trailing ',' at the end of the final item. On Jul 1, 5:56 am, Gearóid O'Ceallaigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, thanks for the reply. > > I can't post the page since the site is being developed locally. I > figured out several things that may prove useful however. I tried > using a group of the data to see if this was the problem. IE6 returned > the same error: "Unterminated String Contstant" but I noticed that the > line it had a problem with had a German character ( ü ) in it. An > element before this in the list also had this character but threw up > no problem. The word in which the character is used was > " (something)führer" so I rename all elements with the word führer and > replaced them with "fuhrer". The smaller array now worked. > > I tried applying the same technique (as a stop gap) to the larger > array but again IE6 was complaining about an "unterminated string > constant". I then removed all cases of the character "ü" and replaced > them with "u". Now IE has the error "Expected ']' " about halfway > through the array. There is no syntax error around these lines - I've > checked a few times. > > Is there a chance that these foreign characters are causing the errors > within the script? > > On Jun 30, 3:59 pm, gf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 30, 3:38 am, Gearóid O'Ceallaigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm using bassistance's autocomplete on a website (plugin page found > > > here:http://plugins.jquery.com/project/autocompletex). Its perfect > > > for I need since it allows the data for the autocomplete to be loaded > > > from a local array. However, whilst the autocomplete works fine in > > > most browsers - it seems that the length of the array is throwing up > > > an error in IE6. The array contains maybe 500+ elements of data but > > > even if I put them on a single line in the code, the error still gets > > > thrown up. > > > > Has anyone else ever had this problem? > > > It's possible but not real likely that IE6 has a bug preventing it > > from handling that many elements. Without seeing the error nobody can > > say for sure. > > > Having programmed for a long-long time, my instinct is to say more > > likely it's some sort of quoting or delimiting bug in the array > > definition. With that many elements it's hard to scan through them by > > eye unless you have laid them out in a very organized fashion. Our > > eyes and brain are good at finding changes in a pattern of orderly > > rows and columns, not at finding a missing comma or quote in pages of > > characters. So, I always line my arrays up vertically into columns as > > much as possible. (A programming editor like vim with the align module > > makes it really easy.) > > > My next thought is I would use an Ajax query to reduce the array of > > 500 down to something a lot more manageable. You don't say how big > > each element is, but that many elements will slow page load and > > rendering making your user's browser bog down a bit. > > > Do you have the offending page somewhere that others can see it so > > they can try to figure out what's wrong? Don't post the code here as > > it'll cause screams as people open up that many lines of code.
