Here is my code-
$("body").append("<div>" +
"<ul>" +
"<li>" +
"<a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='add()'>Add</a>" +
"</li>" +
"<li>" +
"<a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='edit()'>Edit</a>" +
"</li>" +
"<li>" +
"<a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='delete()'>Delete</a>" +
"</li>" +
"</ul>" +
"</div>");
In IE8 I am getting following error -
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0)
Timestamp: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:03:53 UTC
Message: HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element before the child element is closed (KB927917)
Line: 0
Char: 0
Code: 0
you need to do this after page load completed (because IE8 takes time to render and JavaScript get executed):
$(document).ready(function()
{
$("body").append("<div>" +
"<ul>" +
"<li>" +
"<a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='add()'>Add</a>" +
"</li>" +
"<li>" +
"<a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='edit()'>Edit</a>" +
"</li>" +
"<li>" +
"<a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='delete()'>Delete</a>" +
"</li>" +
"</ul>" +
"</div>");
});
for me append didn't work if the element to append was a input. For other elements work.
Example
<td id="V_DepTOTd"><input type="text" id="V_DepTO" /></td>
didn't work
$("#V_DepTO").append("`<input type='hidden' id='elementSelected' />`");
js error: unexpected call method or property acces
work
$("#V_DepTOTd").append("`<input type='hidden' id='elementSelected' />`");
Tested in IE8 and jquery.min.js 1.9.1
My advice, dump that code, that's going to be terrible to maintain. Plus append
takes raw HTML. Try this I think "proper" approach:
// All your functions organized in an object
var actions = {
add: function() { },
edit: function() { },
delete: function() { }
};
// Generate necessary html
var items = [];
for (var a in actions) {
items.push('<li data-item="'+ a +'"><a href="#"></a></li>');
}
// Handle events
var $items = $(items.join('')).click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault(); // similar to "javascript:void"
actions[$(this).data('item')]();
});
// Append to DOM
$('body').append($('<div><ul></ul></div>').find('ul').append($items)));
That will be much easier to maintain because it's all dynamic now. I would suggest using meaningful classes as well for your items, ie. "edit", "add", "delete", so you can target them in CSS more easily.