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Answer 1

+4 A:

You need to tell IE about the tag first. Add this line somewhere before calling addDateFormatInfo():

document.createElement("showDateFormat");

IE will now initialize the element correctly - you can treat it just like any other element. Firefox does this automatically.

Here's the source blog post:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/getting-html-5-styles-in-ie-7

Support for createElement() starts in IE7 - though I works fine in FF3.0.15

Full Example

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
     <title>Home | My Website</title>
    </head>

    <body>

<script type="text/javascript">

document.createElement("showDateFormat");

function addDateFormatInfo(){
    var dateFormatHolder = document.getElementsByTagName("showDateFormat");     
    if ( dateFormatHolder ){        

        for ( i = 0 ; i < dateFormatHolder.length; i++ ){
                dateFormatHolder[i].innerHTML = '<div class="infoSmall" ><span>(mm/dd/yyyy)</span></div>';                                               
        } 
    }
}

</script>

<div>
Date From:<showDateFormat/>
</div>
<div>
Date From:<showDateFormat/>
</div>

<div>
Date From:<showDateFormat/>
</div>

<div>
Date From:<showDateFormat/>
</div>


<p><input type="button" value="click me" onclick="addDateFormatInfo()" />
</p>

</body>

</html>

pygorex1 2009-11-26 07:34:56

hey that works too, i like that trick

Ayyash 2009-11-26 08:03:53

kool thats working. :).

Rakesh Juyal 2009-11-26 13:29:28

Answer 2

A:

Please take a look about Custom Tags support in Internet Explorer.

Windows Internet Explorer's support for custom tags on an HTML page requires that a namespace be defined for the tag. Otherwise, the custom tag is treated as an unknown tag when the document is parsed

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531076%28VS.85%29.aspx

S.Mark 2009-11-26 07:44:03

Answer 3

A:

what you need a custom tag for IE, using Namespaces:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:IETag>

and instead of plain:

<showDateFormat/>

use

<IETag:showDateFormat/>

cutom tags are much more powerful especially when bound to HTC behaviors, but unfortunately they are still IE specific, although you can manage to code something using JQUERY for all browsers, read more here: Using custom tags in IE

Ayyash 2009-11-26 08:02:06

Answer 4

A:

The following blog will have the necessary information http://www.kenvillines.com/archives/000069.html

Ramji 2009-11-26 08:08:08

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