getelementbyid

IE6 can't find Object element with getElementById()?

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 i...

.getElementById IE

Hi. I've got a JavaScript running 2 ".getElementById('').style" changes. Both work perfectly in FF, but the first one doesn't work in IE7. Appreciate all help :) First SourceCode: function ingen() { document.getElementById('merInfo1').style.display='none'; document.getElementById('merInfo2').style.display='none'; document....

Hide a link with a specific class and attribute

I have this html. <a class="link" href="www.website.com?id=233253">test1</a> <a class="link" href="www.website.com?id=456456">test2</a> How can I hide one of these links by using the href attribute, and just the last numbers (233253), to hide the link with this href attribute and the class "link"? This is not a working code, just som...

Referring to a div inside a div with the same ID as another inside another

How can I refer to a nested div by id when it has the same id as a div nested in a similarly named div eg <div id="obj1"> <div id="Meta"> <meta></meta> </div> </div> <div id="obj2"> <div id="Meta"> <meta></meta> </div> </div> I want to get the innerHTML of meta document.getElementById('obj1').getElem...

JQuery : adding 5 id's on the fly (instead of classes)

Hello guys, I'm dealing with this situation : I have a color animation script which targets by id (it's not JQuery but pure javascript) then I have a dynamic list without ids : 'ul' somePHP throwing list items '/ul' and finally I have JQuery itself (which I'll use to add several ids on the fly to the list items: but I still don't know...

document.getElementById() VS. getElementById()

It is common for me to register javascript functions for certain events by doing something like: myBtn.Attributes.Add("onClick", "Validate(getElementById('" + txtFirstName.ClientID + "'));"); I've always used getElementById by itself, or in other words, sans document being prepended to it. But I'm having pages break on me lately when ...

Having an issue with GetElementbyId silverlight and encoding

I am stumped here. I have a project in which I call the following StringBuilder StringBuilder = new StringBuilder(); StringBuilder.Append("<script type='text/javascript' id='VideoSelection'> "); StringBuilder.Append("function SilverlightChangeVideo(videoID) "); StringBuilder.Append("{ "); StringBui...

Javascript getElementById()

Hello everyone. I'm trying to create a generic javascript function that would change attributes on events. The way it would work is function fooFunction(sourceElement) { var newName = sourceElement+'Span'; var newElement = document.getElementById(newName); //Important line newElement.property = "enter properties here";...

getElementById for elements that are not yet in the DOM

As far as I know document.getElementById('myId') will only look for HTML elements that are already in the document. Let's say I've created a new element via JS, but that I haven't appended it yet to the document body, is there's a way I can access this element by its id like I would normally do with getElementById? var newElement = docu...

Get element by ID in JavaScript

I use JavaScript and this error appears for me during execution: Microsoft JScript runtime error: 'document.getElementById(...)' is null or not an object this my code: <asp:Content ID="content2" ContentPlaceHolderID="ContentPlaceHolder1" runat="server"> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function ConfirmTransfe...

MSIE : jQuery's append()/html() not working, resorted to getElementById().innerHTML

Hi StackOverflow, This is a long one, The Premise Was called in to help out a client with some bug fixing on a current project of theirs. What needed fixing was a jobs listing page. You have a list of jobs, you click one and if JavaScript is activated an AJAX call is made to dynamically load the job's details into an existing element ...

Inherited CSS Values via Javascript

On my page I am changing some css styles via javascript. When I try and pull a value that has been inherited - it comes up blank. Consider the following: .Sliding { display: none; overflow: hidden; } .Sliding #FilterBox { height: 185px; background-color: Fuchsia; } And the html:...

Javascript - getElementById fails if anchor also has a name attribute

I'm running into an odd failure. It seems that if I have both an ID and NAME attribute on an anchor element, document.getElementById fails. If I remove the NAME, it works. I'm seeing this in Firefox 3.5(latest) but haven't checked other browsers yet. Is this a bug or intentional? ...

JS problem with getElementById in Explorer

Hello, The html code (with javascript) shown below works in all browsers except IE. I recently learned that IE don't want to handle the getElementById and id codes. Is somebody so kind to advise me, is there another way to get it work or is there a workaround code? Thanks in advance, Erik <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type...

JavaScript getelementbyid problem

When we use getelementbyid in JS the browser ask to allow or block the script, is there a piece of script to automatically allow that or avoid that or is there an alternative for that ...

JavaScript prototyping tutorial

I have a JS script with tons of functions, on big on is this: function id(i) { if(document.getElementById) return document.getElementById(i); return; } It just saves me many bytes in typing out document.getElementById() each time. My problem is I frequently add and remove classes and other attributes from elements. I w...

AJAX document.getElementById().innerHTML problem with IE?

Before someone said that I did not read I may say that I read almost everything linked with my question. But I couldn't find my answer. So, I have a simple AJAX script that loads my external file inside predefined div. This is the code of those script: function loadTwitter() { var xmlHttp; try { // Firefox, Opera 8.0+,...

document.getElementById(variable) Help!!

Hi All, I know it can be done but am having issues getting it to work. Basically I want to change the font color of a specific table cell based on a variable which changes daily, in effect highlighting the day of the week in a calendar. I know that a variable can be used to get the element id but what am I missing here? I have tried usin...

Frustrating problem with JavaScript's getElementById()

I'll firstly admit I'm a lot more productive when using jQuery, however I've been asked to implement a gallery written in vanilla JavScript. My normal javascript DOM skills are only average. This is the gallery I've been asked to implement http://sandbox.leigeber.com/slideshow/ Now I've chopped and changed it ever so slightly so it'd ...

document.getElemenyById not working in one file but working in other

this function is running in one of my files but not working in other one, i have checked all the names etc but couldn't find..... in first file <script type="text/javascript" > function fillDataInCommand() { // var abc = document.myApp.getDataForCommand(); var abc ="heelo syed ammar hassan is here"; document.getEl...