Expressing IT

Had this strange issue , where a piece of Javascript worked fine in all the browser  ans as usual bar IE …  Simple it was, but since the script was not written by me, It took a while to debug this “Object doesn’t support this property or method” error that only IE was throwing up. Probably! If  I were to write the script, I wouldn’t have got this error at all , as do not mix my variable names with field Ids:).

Problem: Object doesn’t support this property or method (on line 3)

function funzoneSP(){
    document.getElementById('video_id').style.visibility="hidden";
    shortdesc = document.getElementById('shortdesc').value;
    ....
}

Solution:
The error is generated on the thirdrow in the example above(Line 3… “shortdesc = document.getE….”). I tried all sort of stupid things , that I dont is even worth the mention here and finally guess what!  just changing the shortdesc var to something else got rid of the error. Basically! The variable name had to different from the fieldID