Onclick Doesn't Yield Expected Results. Results Simply Flash and Vanish.

[drayarms]

Hello people, well this is not an Ajax question.  It's a Javascript/DOM question but I figured I could post it on here since Ajax programmers must be Javacript gurus to begin with, or at least so I think, and since there is no forum on this site specifically for Javascript.

 

I have looked at this code in and out and can't seem to find out what the problem is.  I have a link on a webpage with id name comment_stream on which when users click, is supposed to display an otherwise hidden comment box (id name comment_stream_div) and at the same time, hide the comment link, you know the type on facebook and other social networking sites. I am using javascript functions to accomplish this with an onclick event. The idea is to toggle between the display attributes (block and none) of the elements i wish to hide or display with the onclick event.  Well, my code seems to work, except that as the topic clearly states, the expected results simply flash for a brief second or two and then dissapear.  They don't hang around as expected.  I will show the javasscript below, as well as the the html for the elements involved and the css.

 

<script  type='text/javascript'>

                function show_comment_stream_div() {

                                document.getElementById('comment_stream_div').style.display = 'block';

                                document.getElementById('comment_stream').style.display = 'none';

                                document.getElementById('comment_stream_div').syle.position = 'relative' ;

                                document.getElementById('comment_stream_div').syle.bottom = '82px' ;

			document.getElementById('comment_stream_div').syle.left = '123px' ;
                }


</script>






  //Print the comment link

<p id = 'comment_stream' onclick = 'show_comment_stream_div()' > <a href = ''> Comments: </a> </p>";

//Print out the comments div.

<div id = 'comment_stream_div' onmouseover = 'show_close_comment_stream_div()' onmouseout = '                                                          hide_close_comment_stream_div()'> <p id = 'close_comment_stream_div' onclick = 'hide_comment_stream_div()'> <a> X </a> </p>

        <form action = 'status_comment_entry.php'>

              <input id = 'comment_stream_input' type = 'textarea' rows = '8' cols = '20' value ='' name = 'comment' /> <br/>

              <input id = 'comment_stream_submit' type = 'submit' value = 'submit!' name = 'submit' />

         </form>

</div>




#comment_stream
{position:relative;bottom:70px;left:230px; color:#2d73b9; display:block;}


#comment_stream_div
{ border-style:solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#c0c0c0; display:none;}

 

 

Well folks, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

 

Here are screenshots of the elements in question:

[drayarms]

And one other problem I didn't mention, the positioning doesn't work after the onclick event.  The div stays  in its defualt position.