Below is the jQuery code I am attempting to use. It works well in Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, but not IE7. I was at first suspicious that this was because of the :hidden selector not being supported in IE7, so I tried to simply .show() and .fadeIn() the element without conditions (you can see this from the commented out area).
if (data.indexOf(error) == -1){
alert('in result');
if ( $('.result').is(":hidden") == true ){
alert('in fade in');
$('.result').fadeIn('slow');
}
//$('.result').show('slow');
$('.result span #entry').html(data);
alert('entered data');
However this has not proven successful. Even without the selector conditional, I am still unable to get the element to appear in IE7. But I know it is interpreting the code because both 'in result' and 'entered data' alerts are thrown.
Here's the XHTML
<div class='result'>
<img src='content/red-x.gif' alt='close' />
<span id='entry'></span>
</div>
And CSS
.result {
display: none;
background: #c9fd9b;
background: -webkit-gradient(
linear,
left bottom,
left top,
color-stop(0.51, rgb(201,253,155)),
color-stop(0.85, rgb(217,245,191)),
color-stop(0.24, rgb(193,240,149)),
color-stop(0.11, rgb(177,222,136))
);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(
center bottom,
rgb(201,253,155) 51%,
rgb(217,245,191) 85%,
rgb(193,240,149) 24%,
rgb(177,222,136) 11%));
z-index: 22;
width: 255px;
height: 155px;
position: fixed;
left: 50%;
top: 65px;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 10px;
margin: 5px;
margin-left: -127.5px;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px #333333;
-moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px #333333;
-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 10px #333333;
}