Error on Page in Status Bar

[Clayton91]

Hi.
I'm currently putting together a website. On one of my pages, I get "Error on page" in the status bar when viewing it in Internet Explorer. I don't get this message in Firefox. I have an external javascript (code below) for tooltips on the webpage. I did not write the script, I merely changed one or two things.
When I double click the status bar to see what the message is, it says:

'tt.timer' is null or not an object.
Line: 70
Char: 3

I'm new to javascript, and so I'm not sure of what I need to alter. Can someone give their opinion please?
Any help would be really appreciated!



var tooltip=function(){
var id = 'tt';
var top = 3;
var left = 3;
var maxw = 300;
var speed = 60;
var timer = 20;
var endalpha = 95;
var alpha = 0;
var tt,t,c,b,h;
var ie = document.all ? true : false;
return{
show:function(v,w){
if(tt == null){
tt = document.createElement('div');
tt.setAttribute('id',id);
t = document.createElement('div');
t.setAttribute('id',id + 'top');
c = document.createElement('div');
c.setAttribute('id',id + 'cont');
b = document.createElement('div');
b.setAttribute('id',id + 'bot');
tt.appendChild(t);
tt.appendChild(c);
tt.appendChild(b);
document.body.appendChild(tt);
tt.style.opacity = 0;
tt.style.filter = 'alpha(opacity=0)';
document.onmousemove = this.pos;
}
tt.style.display = 'block';
c.innerHTML = v;
tt.style.width = w ? w + 'px' : 'auto';
if(!w && ie){
t.style.display = 'none';
b.style.display = 'none';
tt.style.width = tt.offsetWidth;
t.style.display = 'block';
b.style.display = 'block';
}
if(tt.offsetWidth > maxw){tt.style.width = maxw + 'px'}
h = parseInt(tt.offsetHeight) + top;
clearInterval(tt.timer);
tt.timer = setInterval(function(){tooltip.fade(1)},timer);
},
pos:function(e){
var u = ie ? event.clientY + document.getElementById('faqid').scrollTop : e.pageY;
var l = ie ? event.clientX + document.documentElement.scrollLeft : e.pageX;
tt.style.top = (u - h) + 'px';
tt.style.left = (l + left) + 'px';
},
fade:function(d){
var a = alpha;
if((a != endalpha && d == 1) || (a != 0 && d == -1)){
var i = speed;
if(endalpha - a < speed && d == 1){
i = endalpha - a;
}else if(alpha < speed && d == -1){
i = a;
}
alpha = a + (i * d);
tt.style.opacity = alpha * .01;
tt.style.filter = 'alpha(opacity=' + alpha + ')';
}else{
clearInterval(tt.timer);
if(d == -1){tt.style.display = 'none'}
}
},
hide:function(){
clearInterval(tt.timer);
tt.timer = setInterval(function(){tooltip.fade(-1)},timer);
}
};
}();

[kwikweb]

Not sure what the function clearTimer() does since you haven't included it in your code snippet however my best guess would be that you are trying to clear a value for the timer property of tt object before it's actually being set for the first time.
You might want to try wrapping the clearTimer() function calls in a try catch block.

Try something like this:


var tooltip=function(){
var id = 'tt';
var top = 3;
var left = 3;
var maxw = 300;
var speed = 60;
var timer = 20;
var endalpha = 95;
var alpha = 0;
var tt,t,c,b,h;
var ie = document.all ? true : false;
return{
show:function(v,w){
if(tt == null){
tt = document.createElement('div');
tt.setAttribute('id',id);
t = document.createElement('div');
t.setAttribute('id',id + 'top');
c = document.createElement('div');
c.setAttribute('id',id + 'cont');
b = document.createElement('div');
b.setAttribute('id',id + 'bot');
tt.appendChild(t);
tt.appendChild(c);
tt.appendChild(b);
document.body.appendChild(tt);
tt.style.opacity = 0;
tt.style.filter = 'alpha(opacity=0)';
document.onmousemove = this.pos;
}
tt.style.display = 'block';
c.innerHTML = v;
tt.style.width = w ? w + 'px' : 'auto';
if(!w && ie){
t.style.display = 'none';
b.style.display = 'none';
tt.style.width = tt.offsetWidth;
t.style.display = 'block';
b.style.display = 'block';
}
if(tt.offsetWidth > maxw){tt.style.width = maxw + 'px'}
h = parseInt(tt.offsetHeight) + top;
try{clearInterval(tt.timer);}catch(e){}
tt.timer = setInterval(function(){tooltip.fade(1)},timer);
},
pos:function(e){
var u = ie ? event.clientY + document.getElementById('faqid').scrollTop : e.pageY;
var l = ie ? event.clientX + document.documentElement.scrollLeft : e.pageX;
tt.style.top = (u - h) + 'px';
tt.style.left = (l + left) + 'px';
},
fade:function(d){
var a = alpha;
if((a != endalpha && d == 1) || (a != 0 && d == -1)){
var i = speed;
if(endalpha - a < speed && d == 1){
i = endalpha - a;
}else if(alpha < speed && d == -1){
i = a;
}
alpha = a + (i * d);
tt.style.opacity = alpha * .01;
tt.style.filter = 'alpha(opacity=' + alpha + ')';
}else{
try{clearInterval(tt.timer);}catch(e){}
if(d == -1){tt.style.display = 'none'}
}
},
hide:function(){
try{clearInterval(tt.timer);}catch(e){}
tt.timer = setInterval(function(){tooltip.fade(-1)},timer);
}
};
}();

Hope that helps with your problem