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[clever_monkey]

Hi,

I get the following error from Announcer when using IE8 to view my site's home page:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; InfoPath.2)
Timestamp: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:03:09 UTC


Message: Object required
Line: 43
Char: 2
Code: 0
URI: http://[site]/wp-content/plugins/announcer/announcement_close.js?ver=3.1.4

It works fine in Firefox. Any suggestions?

[vaakash]

Did you give a ID name for the announcement box ?? this seems to the bug !!! i think so.

If it re-occurs, give me the page URL, i'll find the bug.

[clever_monkey]

The ID is set to 'announcement' in the options page for the Announcer plugin.

The line that is throwing the error is:

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document.getElementById(tgId).style.display = 'block';

If I do the following:

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alert(tgId);

I get a popup that says announcement, which is the name of the id that I've set on the options page.

If you need to see the error, try http://mancini.brandonu.ca/ with IE8.

[vaakash]

I got no error when i tested the plugin in IE8 and I cant access your site !!
I Checked the plugin in this page ----> http://vaakash.kodingen.com/blog/?p=1

If the problem re occurs replace the lines

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if(toggleGetCookie(tgId) == null || toggleGetCookie(tgId) == 'show'){
   toggleHide(tgId);
}else{
   toggleShow(tgId);
}

with

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if(tdId.length > 0){
if(toggleGetCookie(tgId) == null || toggleGetCookie(tgId) == 'show'){
   toggleHide(tgId);
}else{
   toggleShow(tgId);
}
}

Please check using this code. But in native, there is no error or i didn't get any error to debug.

[clever_monkey]

Unfortunately, that didn't work.

Further information:

It's only happening when the announcement is turned off (ie, the plugin is installed, but there is currently no announcment being displayed).
We're using it by placing the code

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<?php if(function_exists('announcer')) { announcer();} ?>

in the template file for the site's home page.

It seems to be a problem with the line

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document.getElementById(tgId).style.display = 'block';

in the toggleShow() function.

Is it possible that, if the announcement is turned off, the

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<div id="announcement">

isn't generated?

[vaakash]

In he announcement_close.js replace the lines

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function toggleInitiliaze(tgName){
   if(toggleGetCookie(tgName) == 'hide'){
      toggleHide(tgName);
   }else{
       toggleShow(tgName);
   }
}

with

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function toggleInitiliaze(tgName){
if(!document.getElementById(tgName)){
   if(toggleGetCookie(tgName) == 'hide'){
      toggleHide(tgName);
   }else{
       toggleShow(tgName);
   }
}
}

Hope this will work. Also make your site active

[clever_monkey]

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function toggleInitiliaze(tgName){
if(!document.getElementById(tgName)){
   if(toggleGetCookie(tgName) == 'hide'){
      toggleHide(tgName);
   }else{
       toggleShow(tgName);
   }
}
}

I used

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if(document.getElementById(tgName))

and it worked. Thanks!

[vaakash]

Happy that it worked. But it is strange problem. You should not get a alert. The browser should take this silently. Anyway happy that this worked !

[hitman1972]

ciao, same error here. clever_monkey solution works fine

[vaakash]

fine...