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problem with document.getElementById accessing HEAD id="head"

Answer 1

+3 A:

Use this instead:

document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0]

Randell 2009-08-21 14:09:41

Answer 2

+2 A:

<html>
 <head id="head">
  <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.1.min.js" ></script>
 </head>
 <body>

 <script type="text/javascript">
  alert(document.getElementById("head"));
 </script>
 </body>
</html>

work fine in firefox. but if you script is in the header and is runned automaticcally it could not work as the header is not fully loaded

Gregoire 2009-08-21 14:11:53

Answer 3

A:

Tested on Firefox 3 with Firebug:

>>> document.getElementById('head')
<head id="head">

Are you sure your head element has an ID of head?

CalebD 2009-08-21 14:12:29

Answer 4

+1 A:

I think the attribute id is not allowed in this particular tag.

stefita 2009-08-21 14:13:19

That is correct: `id` is not a valid attribute for the `<head>` tag in HTML.

Nate 2009-08-21 14:41:10

Can you provide us with link where are listed tags which cannot have id ? I am interrested particurarly in FRAME tag

ante.sabo 2009-11-27 09:45:36

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/present/frames.html#edef-FRAME

stefita 2009-11-27 17:28:26

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