IE and another JS blunder...

So I report with great disdain, yet another problem with IE and cross browser compatibility. IE does not (by design) support the .innerHTML property correctly for elements like TABLE, THEAD, TFOOT, TR, and TBODY (even though it's not listed there). They decided for some unknown reason to be different on this topic than EVERY OTHER browser on the market.

Now, I will say, as a matter of practice, I resist the use of innerHTML as much as possible, using the DOM's document.createElement instead. I have, however, run into a case where this is not only impractical, it is not possible due to the very dynamic nature of the project I am working on.

So I built my project using FireFox (as usual) then crossed my fingers and launched it in IE to test compatibility. I was greeted with an ever-so-informative "Unknown runtime error". Even running they handy script debugger didn't give me any more information as to why .innerHTML would cause this sort of thing.

After much searching and much testing, I was forced to just destroy the table and use innerHTML on the parent DIV to recreate it.

What a pane... it's no wonder my boss made the early decision to only support FireFox for the administrative side of our software... too bad we can't do the same with the public side .