IE 7 New Element problem

[kstubs]

I'm getting something undefined (see generated source below) from this:

var img = new Element('img', {'src':'/Resources/Library.Images/transparent.gif', 'usemap':'#' + company, 'style': 'width:' + args.width + '; height:' + args.height + ';'});

This is in IE7.  Do you see an issue in or around 'style'?

Generated source:

<IMG style="Z-INDEX: 1; WIDTH: 730px; HEIGHT: 90px" height=1 src="/Resources/Library.Images/transparent.gif" width=1 undefined="width:730px; height:90px;" usemap="#poway">

[Victor]

I used similar things with
 new Element(tagName, {style:"..."})
earlier, but after strange behavior of IE I prefer to use
 new Element(tagName).setStyle({width:x,height:y})

[kstubs]

If indeed setStyle is working and not the former, then it would seem to me that the issue could easily be traced back to the root of the problem.  Perhaps someone of the Prototype dev team can have a look into this.

Karl..

[kstubs]

So this:

var form = new Element('form', {id:'MSO_LOGON', action:'#', method:'post', style:'display:none'});

Renders this:

<FORM id=MSO_LOGON style="DISPLAY: none" action=# method=post _prototypeUID="12" undefined="display:none"></FORM>

Notice the undefined above.

[Walter Lee Davis]

I find with IE of any flavor, that it helps a lot to break this up
into separate steps, rather than the lovely one-liner you have here.

var f = new Element('form'); // IE may be having kittens with form as
a variable name
//maybe insert it somewhere in the page, too, before you start working
on it further
$('someDiv').insert(f);
f.hide(); //same as setStyle('display:hidden');
f
.writeAttribute
('id
','MSO_LOGON
').writeAttribute('action','#').writeAttribute('method','post');

I'm not sure that's absolutely required, but whenever IE starts acting
up with new Element, that's the first thing I start doing. Test to see
how much you can get away with stashing in the initial new Element
call, also test putting quotes around your keys in the hash, style out
in the open like that seems to be the critical factor.

Walter

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[kstubs]

Yeah, I'm recoding a bunch of these right now.  Bummer.  Seems like this could be fixed.  

Karl..