Javascript created div not reading CSS in IE

Question

Hi, once again, IE is proving to be the biggest pain in the world, on headset.no, we have a small blue search field, when you type for example "jabra" into it, it should generate a div that gives you suggestions underneath, this works perfectly in Chrome, Safari, opera and FF, but of course, IE has another idea of what to do with it.

I use the CSS Browser Selector plugin to identify CSS between browsers in this site.

When I hit F12 on IE, it seems like there are a number of inline styles applied to the

<div class="autocomplete" id="searchSuggestions" 

style="
z-index: 2; 
position: absolute; 
filter: ; 
width: 130px; 
display: none; 
top: 193px; 
left: 1px;" 

getElementsByClassName="function() {...

Which are not present in the sourcecode.

Could someone please take a look and try to tell me what's wrong with this? I have depleted all my patience on this.

The JS:

var searchSuggestionInit = function()
{
    if ($('searchField'))
    {
        $('searchField').addClassName('quickSearch');
        $('searchField').down('.srch-txt').addClassName('text');
    }

    var field = $('searchContainer').down('.quickSearch').down('input.text');
    if (!field.id)
    {
        field.id = 'searchQuery';
    }

    field.setAttribute('autocomplete', 'none');

    new Ajax.Autocompleter(field.id, 'searchSuggestions', Router.createUrl('searchSuggestions', 'index'),
        {
        });
}

Event.observe(window, 'load', searchSuggestionInit);

And the CSS:

/************************************************** SEARCH SUGGESTIONS*/
div.autocomplete {
  position:absolute;
  width:250px;
  background-color:white;
  border:1px solid #888;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  z-index: 50000;
  font-size: 0.85em;
  overflow: hidden;

}

.ie .div.autocomplete {
  position:absolute;
  width:250px;
  background-color:white;
  border:1px solid #888;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
  z-index: 50000;
  font-size: 0.85em;
  overflow: hidden;
}
div.autocomplete ul {
  list-style-type:none;
  margin:0;
  padding:0;
}
div.autocomplete ul li.selected { background-color: #ffb;}
div.autocomplete ul li {
  list-style-type:none;
  display:block;
  margin:0;
  padding:2px;
  cursor:pointer;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

And some sourcecode.

<div id="search" title="Søk automatisk i databasen">
<div id="searchField">
{capture assign="searchUrl"}{categoryUrl data=$category}{/capture}
{form action="controller=category" class="Search" handle=$form}
<input type="hidden" name="id" value="1" />
{textfield type="text" onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='';" onfocus="if(this.value=='') this.value='';" class="srch-txt" name="q" id="s" size="16"}
</div>
<button type="submit" class="m" id="searchsubmit">&nbsp;</button>{/form}
</div>


{loadJs form=true}
<div id="searchSuggestions" class="autocomplete" style="display: none;"></div>


{literal}
<script type="text/javascript">  
$j("#search").tooltip({ offset: [45, 200], effect: 'slide' });
</script>
{/literal} 

        <div class="clear"></div>
    </div>
</div>

Thanks very much :)

Answer 1

This works in IE7, but not in IE8.

If you turn on script debugging by removing the check marks next to both 'Disable script debugging' option in - Tools | Internet Options | Advanced - you'll see that there's a script error at startup. Investigate this error, and you might find that the search box problem is due to something not being setup correctly when the page loads.