Forcing a DOM refresh in Internet explorer after javascript dom manipulation

Question

Here is the situation. I have some javascript that looks like this:

function onSubmit() {
    doSomeStuff();
    someSpan.style.display=\"block\";
    otherS         


        

Answer 1

To continue what ChrisW says:

here's flushing script to flash DOM, so you don't have to call alert(""); (found at http://amolnw.wordpress.com/category/programming/javascript/):

function flushThis(id){
   var msie = 'Microsoft Internet Explorer';
   var tmp = 0;
   var elementOnShow = document.getElementById(id);
   if (navigator.appName == msie){
      tmp = elementOnShow.parentNode.offsetTop  +  'px';
   }else{
      tmp = elementOnShow.offsetTop;
   }
}

It works for me!!! Thanks for the tip.