Comments on: Default input values using labels and Prototype

By: Jay K

Jay K — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:55:06 +0000

I’ve made a few changes to this to work around the problem where IE doesn’t like to change the “type” attribute of an input element. I create a new text field and toggle back and forth instead. It also takes care of the problem with form.observe mentioned above (I think). New code at http://gist.github.com/349231/.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:13:36 +0000

Hi Lasse

First, thanks for the tidy little script :)

I did run into some problems with IE (nothing unusual there :) – the script was throwing an error in IE versions 6 through to 8 (I’m using IETester in a Parallels Windows XP install on a Mac, so the issue could lie there, but just in case anyone else runs into the same thing, read on).

I’m no JS expert, but I had a play and found that if I changed line 46 from this:
form.observe(”submit”, function(event) {

to this:
Event.observe(dv_form, ’submit’, function(event) {

it seemed to fix the issue. I have no idea why this would be so – since the same syntax “(element).observe…” is used without a problem elsewhere in the script. Maybe someone else could shed some light on this?

Anyway, thanks again,

dave

By: Lasse Bunk

Lasse Bunk — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:57:53 +0000

Hey Rufor,

Thanks a lot :-) Gotta get used to Digg – I’ve marked it now. Do people usually make the first Digg themselves?

Regards,
Lasse

By: Rufor

Rufor — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:42:37 +0000

Hello,
Super post, Need to mark it on Digg
Thanks