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The IE flash problem. See fixes
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AJAX request overlapping

I am sure many people of faced the problem of multiple ajax requests overlapping each other's context. In english - when you placed 2 AJAX requests without any delay between them, the AJAX callback function receives only the data from the second request.

This happens due to caching problems in the browsers.

To avoid this i created a stack implementation in Javascript and used the stack to control my AJAX request. Consequently, the AJAX requests went out sequentially rather than all at once, but it was a trade-off i was willing to pay.

Nirsoft ProduKey

ProduKey is a freeware utility to retrieve Windows and Microsoft Office Product Keys. It is one of the few utilities that even lets you run with command line parameters so you can use it in Windows Scripting. A great help for IT administrators!

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HTML form problem with DIV tags, Javascript and Ajax

Issue
I am trying to load page2.jsp into a DIV tag in page1.jsp using Ajax. Further, page2.jsp has a hidden (visibility: hidden) DIV tag inside a table element and this DIV tag also has HTML form elements.
Now on page1.jsp, when I try to unhide the nested DIV tag, the textual content of the DIV tag shows up, but the FORM content disappears!

Reason
1. Some issue with IE HTML compliance. The above scenario is not on issue on Firefox2. But is an issue on IE7
2. This is probably something to do with z-index for the DIV tag and the default given to the FORM elements. I was never able to figure that out anyway
3. The DIV tag in page2.jsp has position: relative. position: absolute would not cause any problems, but of course, that setting is not what I needed

Work Around
I created a 2nd DIV tag on page2.jsp, right underneath the first DIV tag. It looks something like this

<a onclick="toggleDiv('buddydiv', false); toggleDiv('spacerdiv1', true);">
<div id="buddydiv" style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden;">
<input name="send_email" id="sendemail" value="checkbox" type="checkbox">
</div>
<div id="spacerdiv1" style="position: absolute; height: 160px; visibility: hidden "> </div>


Definition of toggleDIV
function toggleDiv(layerid, blockStyle) {
if(document.getElementById) {
var obj1 = document.getElementById(layerid);
if(obj1.style.visibility=='visible') {
obj1.style.visibility = "hidden";
if(blockStyle==true)
obj1.style.position = "absolute";
} else {
obj1.style.visibility = "visible";
if(blockStyle==true)
obj1.style.position = "relative";
}
}
}