User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Apparently the onload function cannot read the tree view properly. Please view the source of the URL attached and look for window.onload = function () { .... }. Basically the URL contains a <tree>. The items in level 1 of the tree are all containers. However, I want to use JavaScript to turn some containers off: if ( list.view.getCellText( i, "count" ) == "0" ) { list.view.getItemAtIndex( i ).setAttribute( "container", "false" ); } I found that if I add an alert anywhere inside the function, it will work properly, e.g.: alert( list.view.getCellText( i, "count" ) == "0" ); if ( list.view.getCellText( i, "count" ) == "0" ) { list.view.getItemAtIndex( i ).setAttribute( "container", "false" ); } This is weird. Maybe something related to bug 196057? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Visit http://blog.cs.cityu.edu.hk/users/50307104/index.xul Actual Results: No changes. Expected Results: Look for items with "writebacks" of "0". The script should set the container attribute of these items to "false". i.e. Remove the [+] icons of those items.

Please ignore the alert windows as it is a workaround... :-(

> Maybe something related to bug 196057? Does the bug go away if you remove the iframe? If so, this is almost certainly a duplicate of bug 196057.... Marking dependent for now.

I've taken out the iframe. But it still doesn't work. So this shouldn't be related to bug 196057. (Sorry, my mistake) By the way, if it has iframe, the following code will gives 2 alerts: window.onload = function( event ) { alert( event.target ); } They are "null" and "[object XULDocument]" respectively.

The tree functions changed between FireFox/1.7 and 1.8a; your code won't work with the trunk. If you want your code to work in both platforms, you'll need something along these lines: var column = "count"; if ("columns" in list) column = list.columns[column]; ... if (list.view.getCellText(i, column) == "0")

list.columns doesn't seem to exist, because alert( list.columns ) gives me "undefined". Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 And why ("columns" in list)? There is no element with an ID of "columns". By the way, free feel to mark this bug as "invalid", if it is the problem of the script but not the XUL engine.

Thanks Enn for the explanation: http://xulplanet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=3045#3045 So it IS a (duplicated) bug after all.

I tested the XUL under Mozilla 1.8a3 again: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 Now I understand why you add ("columns" in list): to check if list.columns exists... However, API of getCellText() seems to be different: Error: [Exception... "Could not convert JavaScript argument arg 1 [nsITreeView.getCellText]" nsresult: "0x80570009 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_JS)" location: "JS frame :: http://blog.cs.cityu.edu.hk/users/50307104/xulbrowser.js :: init :: line 15" data: no] Source File: http://blog.cs.cityu.edu.hk/users/50307104/xulbrowser.js Line: 15 I guess the patch is only checked in the nightly, but not alpha 3?