INFO: JavaScript Entities Not Supported in Internet Explorer 4.0 (190280)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer (Programming) 3.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer (Programming) 3.02
Microsoft Internet Explorer (Programming) 4.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer (Programming) 4.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer (Programming) 4.01 SP1
Microsoft JScript 1.0
Microsoft JScript 2.0
Microsoft JScript 3.0

This article was previously published under Q190280

SUMMARY

JavaScript entities are a method supported in Netscape Navigator 3.0 and later that assign JavaScript code to an HTML tag attribute.

Entities takes the following form:

   <tag attribute="&{ javascript-statements };">

This technique is not supported in Internet Explorer.

MORE INFORMATION

In Netscape Navigator, the following HTML page displays a prompt while rendering and dynamically sets its background color to the entered value.

This code does not work in Internet Explorer.

   <HTML>
   <HEAD><TITLE>Javascript Entity Test</TITLE></HEAD>
   <BODY BGCOLOR="&{prompt("color?");};">
   </BODY>
   </HTML>

REFERENCES

For more information about Netscape Navigator's JavaScript specification, see the following Web page:

http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/jsref/index.htm

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	5/11/2006
Keywords:	kbhtml kbinfo kbScript KB190280