Re: HTML 4.01 Transitional validation

Dylan Parry wrote:

document.onload = addOptions;

Completely proprietary, and even deprecated there (in favor of
`window.onload'). Standards compliant would be

document.body.addEventListener('load', addOptions, false);

However, HTML already provides the means.

function addOptions() {
var select = document.getElementById("light");

for (i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
^
Undeclared identifier which due to the assignment becomes a property
of the Global Object or breaks the script (depending on the DOM).

var option = document.createElement("option");
option.text = i+1;
option.value = i+1;
select.appendChild(option);
}
}

That may be the standards compliant approach, but it is not cross-browser,
and it is known to fail. Probably it is better to create Option elements
(from JavaScript/JScript 1.0+), and add them to the HTMLSelectElement
object's `options' collection:

<head>
...
<meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript">
<script type="text/javascript">
function addOptions(sForm, sSelect)
{
var select = document.forms[sForm].elements[sSelect];

for (var i = 0; i < 9; i++)
{
select.options[select.options.length] = new Option(i + 1, i + 1);
}
}
</script>
...
</head>

<body onload="addOptions('myForm', 'mySelect');">
...
</body>


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