I'm trying to get an object element from my webpage using getElementById (ultimately so I can replace it with a dynamically created object element) but it is returning null in IE6.
In the following code, the byId() function returns null in IE but an [object HTMLObjectElement] in Firefox 3 and the lengthOfByTagName() function returns 0 in IE but 1 in Firefox.
Is there something I am doing wrong?
<html>
<head>
<title>IE doesn't see Object element?</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function byId()
{
var video = document.getElementById("VideoPlayer");
alert(video);
}
function lengthOfByTagName()
{
var length = document.getElementsByTagName("object").length;
alert(length);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<object type="" id="VideoPlayer">
<param name="allowScriptAcess" value="always" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
VideoPlayer element
</object>
<br>
<br>
<a href="#" onclick="javascript:byId()">getElementById("VideoPlayer")</a>
<br>
<a href="#" onclick="javascript:lengthOfByTagName()">getElementsByTagName("object").length</a>
</body>
</html>