Using innerHTML to add ordered list fails in IE
- by Matt
I'm using the following Javascript code to populate a DIV with an ordered list:
// send script back in split list
var scriptList = script.split("\n");
var finalScript = "<ol>\n";
var count = 0;
while(scriptList.length >= count) {
if((scriptList[count]=="") || (scriptList[count] == undefined)) {
count ++;
continue;
}
finalScript = finalScript + "<li>" + scriptList[count] + "</li>\n";
count ++;
}
finalScript = finalScript + "</ol>";
scriptingDiv.innerHTML = finalScript;
In firefox, if i look in the DOM using Firebug, this correctly translates to the following and correctly displays an ordered list.
<ol>
<li>This is the first item in the list</li>
<li>This is the second item in the list</li>
</ol>
In IE, it displays as if the </li> tags are <br /> tags and ignores all the other tags, like this:
This is the first item in the list
This is the second item in the list
Do I need to dynamically add the ordered list to the DOM for this to work? As opposed to just setting the html code in the div using .innerHTML?
TIA
