On May 17, 2:41 am, Keith Hughitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've run into a strange issue with IE7/8, and was wondering if anyone
> might be able to help point out the cause.
>
> The problem arises when I have buttons which use self-closing tags
> (e.g. <button />) instead of separate closing tags. This is the case,
> for example, when the buttons are generated via prototypes Element
> constructor, or with Scriptaculous's Builder class. The result is that
> items following a self-closing button are not displayed.
>
> An example of this is:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html
> PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en">
> <head>
> <title>IE Button Closing Tags</title>
>
> </head>
> <body>
> <!-- ie7 doesn't seem to like it when you use <button /> instead of
> <button></button> -->
> <button style="width:20px; height:10px;" type="button"></
> button><p>some text</p>
> <button style="width:20px; height:10px;" type="button" /><p>more text?
> </p>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> Does anyone know what the cause of this is? Firefox, etc. has no
> problems with the later form. I could work-around the problem if I
> could tell Builder to using a separate closing tag, but this doens't
> seem to work, even when I write out the closing tag explicitly with
> Builder.build().
>
> Anyone have any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
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