error using document.write("........");

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December 16th, 1999, 12:52 PM

2ki

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Hi,

I need to generate a new document that will contain javascripting with the document.write method

I create a string :
tmp = "";
tmp += "<HTML>......";
tmp += "....<SCRIPT>";
tmp += "............";
tmp += "............";
tmp += "...</SCRIPT>";
tmp += "...</HTML>";

And when I do the instruction :
document.open();
document.write(tmp);
document.close();

I crashes when the browser evaluates the </script> in the tmp string !!!

Does anybody has an idea of the way to do it ???

Thanks for any help.

2ki.

December 23rd, 1999, 03:53 AM

PAV

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I don't know what you have placed between the <SCRIPT>..</SCRIPT> tags, but it could be that there are certain characters (like ", etc.) which cause it.
You should 'escape' these characters with an , e.g. '"' (to display " itself).
Check this or else let us know what is between those tags.

Good christmas!

December 27th, 1999, 11:49 AM

time2brew

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I would suggest putting the javascript between your script tags as a function in the same file you are doing your document.write() from.

then the <body> can have an onload event that calls this function.

ex.

function initNewHTML(){
// your script here
}
function CreateNewHtml(){
var str="";
str +="<html><body onload='initNewHTML()'></body></html>"
document.open();
document.write(str);
docuent.close();
}

January 27th, 2000, 10:02 AM

Bjoern

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I agree to the previous posts (about escaping special characters like /) but there is another thing to consider:
if you do a document.write in the same document where the var is you want to write it might well be that you kill the whole skript since the browser starts a whole new document. This will kill the skript and the var.

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