oops, bad use of "var" here, but you get the idea. ;)
On Jul 31, 10:29 am, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
> jQuery's trim is used like:
> var str = $.trim(str);
>
> On Jul 31, 10:24 am, Magnificent
>
> <imightbewrongbutidontthin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
>
> > I'm running into an IE7 problem where the Visual Studio debugger is
> > saying:
>
> > "Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object doesn't support this property
> > or method"
>
> > Visual Studio is highlighting this line as the problem:
> > if($(this).text().trim().toLowerCase() === subToBold
>
> > $(this) should be the li.
> > text() should be the text/content of the li.
> > I then trim/lowercase it.
>
> > The pertinent code block is below, the "lis" are list items I'm
> > iterating over, I'm checking if the text of the li is equal to a
> > dynamically populated hidden form field on the page. Code all works
> > fine in Firefox, but throws errors in IE, any ideas why?
>
> > if(url[7] === 'default.aspx'){
> > //if we're on default.aspx we don't want to bold the hidden form
> > field subnav so do nothing here} else {
>
> > //bold the hidden form field subnav
> > lis.each(function() { //iterate over each subnav to bold
> > if($(this).text().trim().toLowerCase() === subToBold) { //
> > text of each subnav, trimmed to strip whitespace
> > $(this).css('font-weight', 'bold');
> > }
> > });
>
> > }
>
>
