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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: IE8 attachEvent problem
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:21:54 -0700
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Evertjan said:
>>    window.onload = "document.getElementById(tid).scrollIntoView();"
>
> If you change this to:
>
> body.onload = 'document.getElementById(tid).scrollIntoView();'
>
> ... shouldn't it work on most browsers,
> "eventually" not needing any other "attaching"?
>

Hi Evertjan:

    I've changed my remember() function to what is show below, and 
re-tested:

Result:

    On IE8, I get the error 'body is undefined'

    BUT, it works on IE8 and I return to the 'remembered' set of lines in 
the table even with the 'indefined' error ???

    On Chrome, FF, ands Safari, I'm not sure what is going on ...

-Mel

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function remember(e) {
var targ,tid;
if (!e)
  {
  var e=window.event;
  }
if (e.target)
  {
  targ=e.target;
  }
else if (e.srcElement)
  {
  targ=e.srcElement;
  }
if (targ.nodeType==3) // defeat Safari bug
  {
  targ = targ.parentNode;
  }
tid=targ.id;

body.onload="document.getElementById(tid).scrollIntoView();"
return;
}