Whitespace in Firefox
I have been busy doing stuff with the DOM at work. One thing that continually bugs me is that Firefox seems to find a lot of whitespace and called them textnodes. Obviously when you use firstChild, lastChild, nextSibling or previousSibling and you think that what you are getting from your script should be a div or something other than a textnode this can cause some problems.
Internet Explorer seems to have no problem negotiating the whitespace which annoys me as I really like using Firefox and this is one of the few bad things I have come across concerning this browser.
Whitespace in the DOM explains why this happens and provides a handy little script that helps overcome the problem. It probably explains the problem better than I have as well!
great.today,when i was coding with firefox,i met the problem.the code is here.
/*—————–*/
function mycall(element){
element=$(element);
alert(element.className);
element.nextSibling.style.display=”none”;
}
/*———–*/
the key word-”nextSibling” works well with IE,but died with Firefox.
Yep - that looks like the problem - sometimes you can go into the html and remove the spaces and that sorts it but I think the script I mention above takes out the guess work.