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Why does jQuery or a DOM method such as getElementById not find the element?
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I'm trying to use function closure in my javascript as follows:
In my html file:
<head>
<script src="myscript.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<section id="mysectionId"></section>
</body>
In myscript.js:
(function() {
var id = document.getElementById('mysectionId');
console.log(id);
}());
However, id seems to equal null. I'm not sure what I've done wrong - does function closure scope exclude globals like 'document'? If so, how come I can still use 'console.log()' inside the function closure?
You're javascript is running before your html loads. Put your script tag after your html content at the very bottom of the body
<head>
// put css here
</head>
<body>
<section id="mysection"></section>
<script src="myscript.js"></script>
</body>
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htmlfile:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="q" id="cooki" onclick="cookie()">Accept!</div>
</body>
js:
function cookie() {
alert("hi");
}
and I even tested with console.log, I used script source in body tags , nothing worked
Hi #Z3N1X Welcome to Stackoverflow.
To fix your issue try renaming your function to something else,
since how all of the comments below the answer has said(Thanks for correcting me)
when you use the cookie name in the function or variable the onclick thinks your trying to use the document.cookie function.
that's why this is happening.
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so I'm using this Javascript (API) that has a bunch of function. How do I go about writing it to an HTML file?
so one of the function is "api.ping()" which works fine on powershell, but I cant get it to print that in an HTML file.
So in the script I wrote
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = api.ping();
and the HTML is
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<script type="index.js"></script>
<p id="demo"></p>
</body>
</html>
I'm trying to put the value returned from the call onto the HTML file.
I think your index.js file is probably not being included. You'll want to change the tag line to read:
<script type="text/javascript" src="index.js"></script>
Assuming that index.js is in the same directory as this HTML file.
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Why does jQuery or a DOM method such as getElementById not find the element?
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I don't understand why this simple script works only when I place it in the body?
when i place the script within the head or in external JS file it doesn't work.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Web Page</h1>
<p>My First Paragraph</p>
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = 5 + 6;
</script>
</body>
</html>
Because the element you reference is defined only later (at the time the <head> is processed the browser hasn't processed the markup underneath it yet).
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document.getElementById() doesn't work? [duplicate]
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im new to javascript and want to fill a div with some text. but it doesn't work.
in the documentation this is the common way to do this. but, why doesn't work this for me?
my code is
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('mytest').innerHTML="hey";
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="mytest"></div>
</body>
</html>
You need to move your script to the end of your HTML. Right now, you're executing the script BEFORE your HTML has been parsed so the document is empty and thus document.getElemntById('mytest') does not find anything.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="mytest"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('mytest').innerHTML="hey";
</script>
</body>
</html>
See this other answer for a lot more discussion of this issue and other options if you don't want to move your <script> tag:
pure JavaScript equivalent to jQuery's $.ready() how to call a function when the page/dom is ready for it
thats because, in your document, the javascript is load at the first, but the div with the id mytest is not loaded at this moment.
you have 2 options to get this working:
first: say javascript to wait until the dom is loaded completly
window.onload=function(){
document.getElementById('mytest').innerHTML="hey";
}
second:
put your script code at the bottom, so the javascript is loaded at least.
but i would prefer the first solution.
best
Try in this way
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="mytest"></div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.getElementById('mytest').innerHTML="hey";
</script>
</html>
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I'm trying to get the element with getElementById(), but it returns null even though the element exists. What am I doing wrong?
<html>
<head>
<title>blah</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
alert(document.getElementById("abc"));
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="abc">
</div>
</body>
You have to put this in a document load event. The DOM hasn't gotten to abc by the time the script is executed.
Your script runs before the DOM has been loaded. To fix this you can place your code in the window.onload function like so:
window.onload = function() {
alert(document.getElementById("abc"));
};
An alternative is to place your script right before the closing </body> tag.
If you don't want to attach to the load event then simply put your script at the bottom of the body, so it will execute at the end-
<html>
<head>
<title>blah</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="abc">
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
alert(document.getElementById("abc"));
</script>
</body>
</html>
This is because the script runs before the page has rendered.
For proof add this attribute to the body tag:
<body onload="alert(document.getElementById('abc'));" >
But it doesn't exist, not at that point in the HTML. HTML documents are parsed top-to-bottom, just like programs run. The best solution is just to put your script tag at the bottom of the page. You could also attach your JavaScript to the onload event.