Through foresight, i already know this will be a very pitiful question to
real web designers, so bear with me.I was having some trouble finding out why, whenever I call for document.getElementById(id), it returns null (even if there is a valid id-matching element). Consider something simple, like
It's because the code is being executed before the tags with the
matching ids are created.
On 12/6/05, Chris Lamberson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Through foresight, i already know this will be a very pitiful question to
> real web designers, so bear with me.
>
> I was having some trouble finding
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G'day
I was having some trouble finding out why, whenever I call for
document.getElementById(id), it returns null (even if there is a valid
id-matching element). Consider something simple, like this:
The javascript runs as the page loads. At that point, the
elements with the ids do not yet ex
What browser are you using?
That should work on most of them, but Internet Explorer has a
mis-feature were it does something really wierd. I think what it does is
assigns elements with id's to variables with the id's name. I'm not sure
though, I haven't tested it out enough.
The consequence thoug
Nevermind, ignore what I said, Bert is right. Although IE may misbehave
as well, it seems pretty inconsitent and buggy.
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:21 +0800, Bert Doorn wrote:
> G'day
>
> > I was having some trouble finding out why, whenever I call for
> > document.getElementById(id), it returns nul
Chris Lamberson wrote:
I think that's the problem I had on both
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/tmp/dpi-broken.html and
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/dpi-screen-window.html in certain
development builds of Gecko recently until I got some help with a
workaround now found in the latter but not th
Dear All,
Let you know why this problem is coming. Actually I am
a bit busy with my work, if not I would have sent the
cause.
Regards,
Malla
--- Ben Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's because the code is being executed before the
> tags with the
> matching ids are created.
>
> On 12/6/05,
Hi Chris,
As JavaScript isn't a precompiled language (rather a scripting one),
functions, objects and variables are processed one after another,
following the source order. When you declare your variables, the browser
is not yet aware of the existence of the two requested elements. You
have s
