document.write

javascript document.write in external js file. IE problem. Yes, again and still.

Hello the Community. Working on big, high loaded project I got the problem that already described in billion of topics on forums and blog, but there is no solution that will help in my case. Here is the story. I have the HTML code of banner, I don't know what is the code. Sometimes it's plain HTML, but sometimes it's <script> tag with ...

Why use document.write?

Hi, I was wondering why ad's still use the document.write approach to inserting the add into the page <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> document.write("<script type='text/javascript' src='http://addomain/someadd.js'&gt;&lt;\/sc" + "ript>"); </script> Why is it that I can't just put <script type='text/javasc...

How do JavaScript tidbits insert remote widgets onto a page?

Let's say I have a web service that allows users to insert a piece of JavaScript onto their page which, when loaded, will grab a widget from my server and insert it into their page. How might I go about doing that, and what techniques should I use? document.write? ...

Aliasing a DOM function (Document.Write) and scripts on other domains

I want to force external 3rd party scripts (on seperate domains) to use my own custom implementation of document.write when I load them on my domain. ie: document.write = function(args) { // My custom Function } This works fine for scripts on the same domain, but scripts on other domains use the browser default. Can I overrid...

When using onclick-event and document.write in javascript, does it always have to open in new window.

Does it have to open in the sam Eg: function write(){ document.write("write") } input type="button" onclick="write()" value="Click" ...

JS: Displaying html w/ variables via document.write.

Hi all, I just started learning JS the other day and am (of course) having some difficulty. I usually grasp onto things quickly but I can't for the life of my find a solution to this. I'd like to understand why this is happening. My objective is to use 3 prompt boxes, all which come one after another, to print out a piece of html code,...

JavaScript - controlling the insertion point for document.write

I would like to create a page that runs a 3rd party script that includes document.write after the DOM was already fully loaded. My page is not XHTML. My problem is that the document.write is overwriting my own page. (which is what it does once the DOM was loaded). I tried overriding the document.write function (in a way similiar to htt...

Why won't this JavaScript (using document.open and document.write) work in Internet Explorer or Opera?

I desperately need some help on this one. I've created a <script> that closely parallels, and reproduces the problem of, another more complex <script> that I've written elsewhere. Here's what it does: creates an <iframe> and inserts in into a <div> on the page creates and appends a document to that <iframe>, which contains a <script>...

Google Analytics Tracking Code and Document.write causing requests to localhost?

Google Analytics recommends that the code below be inserted before the </body> tag on all web pages on our website to enable visitor tracking. <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytic...

How can JavaScript make new page that contains more JavaScript?

I'm opening new page using JS and writing into it the HTML code, however when I try to write JS inside the new page using document.write() function it doesn't work. Apparently the main JS closes as soon as the it sees /script> which is intended for the JS of the new page that will be opened. Is there away around this? var opened = win...

When I use javascript's document.write command it doesn't seem to display leading spaces. Help please.

This is the code I wrote up to display a Mancala board but it won't display the leading space for some reason. Does anyone know why this is happening? Any help is greatly appreciated. function display(board) { var space = " "; document.write(space); for (var i=0;i<board.length/2;i=i+1) ...

Safari and Chrome doesn't evaluate dynamically added <script> tag at page load

I am writing small JavaScript code which will load external js files at html page loading. I tested 2 ways. Case 1: Used document.write to add <script> tag. It worked for all browsers (IE, FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera). Case 2: Used DOMElement.appendChild to add <script> tag to the <haed> element. Only worked for IE, FF, and Opera. Did ...

Overwriting iframe's document.write

For my own purposes (cough lazy-loading an ad script), I am overwriting the document.write function in order to buffer the script's output, writing it to a div, and restoring the native document.write when I am done. The pseudo-code looks something like this: save off native code document.write redefine document.write eval and buffer ...

using the DOM to add elements, document.write

I have just learned (no thanks to IE) that I cannot use document.write scripts in XHTML. However, it seems there is a way around it by using the DOM to add elements. I don't know. It's foreign to me. Here's the JS: copyright=new Date(); update=copyright.getFullYear(); document.write("Copyright &copy; 2004-"+ update + " flip-flop media"...

Javascript Function Not Accessible when Dynamically Writing a Script

so I have an external javascript file, lets call it something.js and i document.write it to the document. For some reason, I cant access the function in Safari or FireFox. It goes a little something like this: <script type="text/javascript"> document.write(decodeURI("%3Cscript src='something.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/scrip...

Javascript floodlight tracking iframe leaves browser window blank, please help!

Hello, I have been asked to implement a javascript floodlight tag onto my site which is to be called everytime a customer downloads a pdf file. I have tried to implement this as follows: <script type="text/javascript"> function appForm() { var axel = Math.random() + ""; var a = axel * 10000000000000; document.write('<IFRAME SRC="htt...

Append to a webpage in javascript

What I want to do is that: a webpage with continuously updating content. (In my case is updating every 2s) New content is appended to the old one instead of overwriting. Here is the code I have: var msg_list = new Array( "<message>Hello, Clare</message>", "<message>Hello,Lily</message>", "<message>Hello, Kevin</message>", "<mes...

document.write issue

I inherited a piece of code that uses document.write to insert a certain div when the code is encountered. Unfortunately, this code is causing issues in IE where the code fails. Is there a way around this to insert a div on the page without it? I can't make a big change since this code is currently used by many clients(it's like googl...

How to override JS function from a firefox extension?

Hello, I am trying to intercept calls to document.write for all pages. Setting up the interception inside the page by injecting a script like function overrideDocWrite() { alert("Override called"); document.write = function(w) { return function(s) { alert("special dom"); w.call(this, wrapString(s)); }; }(document.write); ...

Controlling the scope of a document.write call coming from a third party

Dear all, I'm writing a webpage that relies on an external javascript file (that I have no control of), which returns data by using document.write's. Is there any way to dynamically call the function without it overwriting the whole document? Here's the most concise code I can think of: <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript">...