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
  }
}

-Justin

It worked fine in some instances but not in others (got the “unknown error” or NO ERROR AT ALL (zero feedback, it just refused to do what I was telling it to — nice!) depending on how I wrote it).

I finally noticed that the ONLY difference was that the ones that worked had a DIV as the immediate ancestor of the A but the ones that didn’t had a P as the ancestor. Switching to DIVs fixed it (just plain old P and DIV tags in the HTML, no CSS applied, not written in dynamically…).

Why the parent element had any effect at all I can’t imagine because all of the DOM changes were further down the tree, and the wrap wasn’t the problem, it was inserting that second div which was then inside a div so it shouldn’t have had this problem, but it is what it is.