I haven't checked with IE9 but I have a simple JS that utilizes document.write to display some information. It works on every browser except IE 6, 7, 8. I checked all my other code and when I decided to eliminate all of it and simply put

document.write(Testing);

I got nothing from IE. Is there another mand I can use. I am new to Javascript.

I haven't checked with IE9 but I have a simple JS that utilizes document.write to display some information. It works on every browser except IE 6, 7, 8. I checked all my other code and when I decided to eliminate all of it and simply put

document.write(Testing);

I got nothing from IE. Is there another mand I can use. I am new to Javascript.

• javascript
• html
• dom

• 1 Not an answer.. but it sounds like you may want to spend some quality time with jQuery... – Shane Courtrille Commented Mar 25, 2011 at 19:43
• Add quotation marks around Testing and see what that does. – Blender Commented Mar 25, 2011 at 19:44
• 2 Testing is an undefined variable. But you should not use document.write anyway. Create a new DOM element instead. – Felix Kling Commented Mar 25, 2011 at 19:45

3 Answers 3

I'm not sure how your original code is using document.write, but you could achieve more or less the same effect this way:

<div id="outputGoesHere"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
    document.getElementById("outputGoesHere").innerHTML = "Testing";
</script>

try: document.write('Testing');

We were having this problem earlier today and luckily our page already had access to jquery...

Replacing document.write(variableWithYourValue) with $('html').html(variableWithYourValue) did the trick for us.