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10.09.2008 at 04:13PM PDT, ID: 23802821 | Points: 250
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Why does document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(input,output) cause some of my links to stop working in Firefox but not in Internet Explorer?

Asked by dkcc in Programming for ASP.NET, Internet Explorer Web Browser, Firefox Web Browser

I have an ASPX page that uses
    document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(input,output)
to remove a phone number and some other text from the page under certain conditions. It works fine for Internet Explorer and the display is also fine in Firefox, but some links stop functioning on my page in Firefox although they still function normally in Internet Explorer.

Curiously, when I use View Source to look at the page source after removing the phone number from the page I still see the phone number in the source although it doesn't display on the web page. Can you explain why that is and why some of the links on my page stop working after i use document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(input,output)
to remove a phone number text string from the page?

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<HEAD>
<script language="javascript1.2" type="text/javascript">
function rmPhoneNumberforCondition()
{
   if(condition==true){
	input = '1-866-123-4567.';
	output='' ;
	document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(input,output);
    }
}
</script>
</HEAD>
<body onload="rmPhoneNumberforCondition()">
[+][-]10.09.2008 at 09:36PM PDT, ID: 22684373

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