But, I was not illegally placing a block element into an inline or other element. I was simply updating the innerHTML of a SPAN within a surrounding DIV. So no problem, right?

Pulled my hair out trying to figure out what was happening until I thought maybe I was using a reserved keyword…. Sure enough – my SPAN ID was ‘type’. I changed it to ‘typer’ and it all worked fine.

The funny thing about this is that it WAS working fine. Must have been a Windows update that caused it to suddenly fail.

In IE7, I was trying to replace a table via AJAX:

getElementById(”table”.innerHTML = http.responseText;
…
  <table id="table">
    ...
  </table>

…

and IE7 gave this stupid “unknown runtime error” message.

When I enclosed the table in a <div>:

<div id="tableContainer">
  <table id="table">
  </table>
</div>

then *both* of these worked great:

getElementById(”table”).innerHTML = http.responseText;

getElementById(”tableContainer”).innerHTML = http.responseText;

That is, I could replace both the table and the table container by their IDs.

HTH

– ben

In IE7, I was trying to replace a table via AJAX:

getElementById(“table”.innerHTML = http.responseText;
…
…

…

and IE7 gave this error.

When I enclosed the table in a :

<div id="tableContainer"

…

then *both* of these worked:

getElementById(“table”.innerHTML = http.responseText;

getElementById(“tableContainer”.innerHTML = http.responseText;

HTH

– ben

And BTW, MSIE8 still does this (same error message), so it’s not an MSIE6 issue.

I am facing same problem.I am using div but still error is coming.
Please help me out.

My code is

function updatepage(str,arg){

	//alert(str);str=html element

	var obj=document.getElementById('sub3');
	try
	{
		obj.innerHTML=str;
	}
	catch(ex)
	{
	alert(ex.message); // never displayed
	}
}