This is a basic follow-up on a previous topic I made where I made an image gallery and complained that Firefox does not like to update things simultaneously...

Well, it's really annoying, because sometimes my little workaround doesn't work properly. Here is a piece of example code for you to try out for yourself. Note that I am using Firefox v1.5.0.3:

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function grab(o){
return document.all?document.all[o]:document.getElementById?document.getElementById(o):"";
}
function changeImage(newSrc){
grab("thePicture").src=newSrc;
grab("thePicture").alt=newSrc;
}
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So, if you try and update the image with the id "thePicture", it updates only the src attribute of that image... but you click it again and it updates the alt of that image. I'm not quite sure why it does it. Originally, I thought that putting a timeout in there would do the job, and specifying the type of function I would like, where type 1 would update the src, and type 2 would update the alt. Here is an example:

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function grab(o){
return document.all?document.all[o]:document.getElementById?document.getElementById(o):"";
}
function changeImg(newSrc,type){
type=!type?1:type;
switch(type){
case 1: grab("thePicture").src=newSrc; setTimeout("changeImg('"+newSrc+"',2)",10); break;
case 2: grab("thePicture").alt=newSrc; break;
}
}
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Still doesn't work, in fact, it does exactly the same thing.

Do you think that I should submit this problem to the Mozilla support people and see what they come back with?

Yes. Unless conn can up with a cheeky fix. But thats unlikely! Tell them ull return to IE unless they sort it. thatll get them right to it!

Heh, it's doubtful I'd ever use IE again for my browsing, I use Firefox at work too, even though we're not really supposed to.

It is very likely to be fixed, i think.

I've submitted this to the MozillaZine forums in the Firefox Bugs section. You should be able to view this new topic by following the link below:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2280941#2280941

Fixed, the guy at the forums said if I simply put the alt update before the src update, it works correctly. And it does.

It's always something simple, isn't it?

Yes

*Embarrassed*

Everyone makes mistakes.

Excpet some of us make more than others......

Yup, such as ^. Erm...

Hey, this is still annoying me... why would it want to do it a certain way around? It doesn't make much sense. I haven't tried this in the latest Firefox 2 beta, but will try when I get home.