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Firefox 4 ignoring table (<td></td>) property

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I am working on upgrading the extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/156940/ for Firefox 4 compatibility.

Basically the extensions enhances the website by adding few query fields which are enclosed in the '<td></td>' format. Until FF 3.6.9, there are no issues. But in FF 4, it is ignoring <td></td> properties.

But it works with out any issues on latest releases of chrome and safari

I am working on upgrading the extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/156940/ for Firefox 4 compatibility. Basically the extensions enhances the website by adding few query fields which are enclosed in the '<td></td>' format. Until FF 3.6.9, there are no issues. But in FF 4, it is ignoring <td></td> properties. But it works with out any issues on latest releases of chrome and safari

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That is because the code is wrong.
You're lucky that it works in Firefox 3.6 , but Firefox 4.0 is more strict.

You try to add TD elements to the innerHTML of another TD element and that doesn't work.

<td id="navSearchBar" class="navSearchBar">Search</td>

You need to add <table> </table> around the code.

This code should work:

			if (lsa[0] == "jp")
			{
				searchTxt = "<table><td style=\"font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; padding-right:5px;\"><span style=\"float:left; width:28px;\">" + searchTxt + "</span></td>";
			}
			else
			{
				searchTxt = "<table><td style=\"font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; padding-right:5px;\">" + searchTxt + "</td>";
			}
			if (lsa[0] != "ca")
			{
				searchTxt += "<td style=\"padding-left:3px;\"><select id=\"p_76\" name=\"p_76\"><option value=''>Any<option value='1'>Prime<option value='1-'>Free</select></td>";
			}
			searchTxt += "<td style=\"padding-left:3px;\"><select id=\"pct-off\" name=\"pct-off\"><option value=''>0-100% <option value='10-'>10% <option value='20-'>20% <option value='30-'>30% <option value='40-'>40% <option value='50-'>50% <option value='60-'>60% <option value='70-'>70% <option value='80-'>80% <option value='90-'>90%</select></td></table>";
			searchObj.innerHTML = searchTxt;


(corrected text that got removed by a previous edit)

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That is because the code is wrong.
You're lucky that it works in Firefox 3.6 , but Firefox 4.0 is more strict.

You try to add TD elements to the innerHTML of another TD element and that doesn't work.

<td id="navSearchBar" class="navSearchBar">Search</td>

You need to add <table> </table> around the code.

This code should work:

			if (lsa[0] == "jp")
			{
				searchTxt = "<table><td style=\"font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; padding-right:5px;\"><span style=\"float:left; width:28px;\">" + searchTxt + "</span></td>";
			}
			else
			{
				searchTxt = "<table><td style=\"font-weight:bold; font-size:13px; padding-right:5px;\">" + searchTxt + "</td>";
			}
			if (lsa[0] != "ca")
			{
				searchTxt += "<td style=\"padding-left:3px;\"><select id=\"p_76\" name=\"p_76\"><option value=''>Any<option value='1'>Prime<option value='1-'>Free</select></td>";
			}
			searchTxt += "<td style=\"padding-left:3px;\"><select id=\"pct-off\" name=\"pct-off\"><option value=''>0-100% <option value='10-'>10% <option value='20-'>20% <option value='30-'>30% <option value='40-'>40% <option value='50-'>50% <option value='60-'>60% <option value='70-'>70% <option value='80-'>80% <option value='90-'>90%</select></td></table>";
			searchObj.innerHTML = searchTxt;


(corrected text that got removed by a previous edit)

Modified by cor-el

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Thank you so much for your help.

Is there a way i can sent you a private message. :-)

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You're welcome. I noticed that I accidentally removed some text while trying to make the code show properly, and I've tried to correct that.

This forum doesn't have a private message feature.

Modified by cor-el