problem with document.body.appenChild() on IE

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I am trying to display loading prompt by creating elements using javascript

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var text = document.createElement('div');
                                text.innerHTML = '<br/><center>Loading........Please Wait!</center>';
                                text.style.height = "80px";
                                text.style.width = "350px";
                                text.style.background = "#000";
                                text.style.opacity = 0.7;
                                text.style.color = '#fff';
                                var header = document.createElement('span');
                                header.innerHTML = "";
                                header.style.height = "50px";
                                header.style.width = "350px";
                                header.appendChild(text);
                                header.style.position = "absolute";
                                header.id = "Loadingmsg1";
                                $(header).css('top', '250px');
                                $(header).css('left', '300px');
                                document.body.appendChild(header);

When i debug this code on chrome once the last line is excuted it shows up the message but not on IE(tested on ver 9)
where i am getting wrong? Please help

Posted 16-Sep-12 23:38pm

Dexter11

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Devang Vaja 17-Sep-12 5:55am

sneha ji what error IE gives??

Dexter11 17-Sep-12 6:00am

it doesn't give any error

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PBGuy · Answer 1 · 2012-09-17T00:02:00

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============================================================
INSTRUCTIONS.

This is a MUTI-PART Script.

============================================================
PART I.
Copy code below into <HEAD> section of your HTML pages
============================================================

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="javascript">

<!-- PreLoad Wait - Script -->
<!-- This script and more from http://www.rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com

function waitPreloadPage() { //DOM
if (document.getElementById){
document.getElementById('prepage').style.visibility='hidden';
}else{
if (document.layers){ //NS4
document.prepage.visibility = 'hidden';
}
else { //IE4
document.all.prepage.style.visibility = 'hidden';
}
}
}
// End -->
</SCRIPT>


============================================================
PART II.
Add the onLoad event, as shown below, to your <BODY> tag:
============================================================

<BODY onLoad="waitPreloadPage();">


============================================================
PART III.
Copy codes below to immediately after <BODY> tag.
============================================================

<DIV id="prepage" style="position:absolute; font-family:arial; font-size:16; left:0px; top:0px; background-color:white; layer-background-color:white; height:100%; width:100%;">
<TABLE width=100%><TR><TD><B>Loading ... ... Please wait!</B></TD></TR></TABLE>
</DIV>