Archive for September 20th, 2007

Don’t use innerHTML, but use Prototype’s Element.update method!

Posted September 20, 2007 * Comments(5)

Note to self: When using prototype don’t use the innerHTML property.

Internet Explorer has got a (in my opinion) broken implementation for certain elements.
It is not possible to change the innerHTML content of the TR and SELECT elements.

Fortunally Prototype has fixed these problems in the Element.update method!

$(“tr_id”).update( “<td>Test</td>” );