javascript - Why does IE give unexpected errors when setting innerHTML

Question

I tried to set innerHTML on an element in firefox and it worked fine, tried it in IE and got unexpected errors with no obvious reason why.

For example if you try and set the innerHTML of a table to " hi from stu " it will fail, because the table must be followed by a sequence.

Answer 1

You're seeing that behaviour because innerHTML is read-only for table elements in IE. From MSDN's innerHTML Property documentation:

The property is read/write for all objects except the following, for which it is read-only: COL, COLGROUP, FRAMESET, HEAD, HTML, STYLE, TABLE, TBODY, TFOOT, THEAD, TITLE, TR.