bgColor error. What am I doing wrong?

[Don Lancaster]

I set up a table...

<table
bgcolor=#FF9966
name=msSel
onmouseover="msSel.bgColor='#FFCC66'"
onmouseout="differentFunction ();"

mouseout is eventully supposed to do several things,
only one of which is to reset the single cell table
color. A shortened function would be

function differentFunction (){

msSel.bgColor="#FF9966" ;
// other stuff here
} ;

on mouseout, a msSEL not found error is returned from
inside differentFunction.

substituting "this.bgColor" neither returns an error
nor changes the color. There are other reasons later
for not using "this" instead of specific names.

Why the error?
What is the correction or workaround?




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[Kevin Darling]

function differentFunction (){
msSel.bgColor="#FF9966" ;

this.style.backgroundColor = "#FF9966";

Kev

 

[Kevin Darling]

Kevin Darling said the following on 4/25/2007 6:36 PM:



In that scenario? "this" doesn't refer to what you think it does. Test it

D'oh !! Yes, I know that. I posted very quickly before dinner and
mixed up editing two different answers. Shame on me!

Thanks for pointing it out

Kev