browser issues?

gingar

Hi guys,

I've got this piece of code that populates the city drop down list on the fly when the country is selected from the drop down list.

<select name="country" onChange="getsubcategories(this.form, subcatArray)">
<option value="Albania Hotels">Albania Hotels</option>
<option value="Andorra Hotels">Andorra Hotels</option>
<option value="Antigua Hotels">Antigua Hotels</option>
<option value="Argentina Hotels">Argentina Hotels</option>
<option value="Aruba Hotels">Aruba Hotels</option>
<option value="Australia Hotels">Australia Hotels</option>
<option value="Austria Hotels">Austria Hotels</option>
<option value="Azerbaijan Hotels">Azerbaijan Hotels</option>
</select>

<select name="town">
</select>

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function getsubcategories(aForm, anArray) {
	var selIndex = aForm.country.selectedIndex+1;
	aForm.town.options.length = 0;

if (!anArray[selIndex])
	return;
for (var i = 0, n = 0; i < anArray[selIndex].length; i++) {
	aForm.town.options[n++] = new Option(
		anArray[selIndex][i][1],
		anArray[selIndex][i][0]
	);
}
aForm.town.selectedIndex = 0;
}
//-->
</script>

it works on most browsers for about half a year or so (as far as I know), but recently I've got 3 users that said they can't see the city list being populated when they could before. The rest of the people in my office are able to view the list, with Firefox2, IE6 and IE7.

It appears the users are using IE 6.

Any idea why they can't see the city drop down list?

JPnyc

My guess would be a change in security settings. Obviously client-side scripting must be enabled for this to work. If other people can view it then obviously it's nothing intrinsic to IE 6. Are the people who can't see it outside a LAN? And the people who can see it are on the LAN? If that were the case, then perhaps the script isn't public. If not, it has to be local security settings.

mpb001

using the noscript tag can be useful.

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_noscript.asp

Then if they they have got it off it will state whatver message if you make it clear enough ( 30px red verdana should do it ).