[thelist] (JS) getElementById

[Stephen Caudill]

Scott, Josh,
  You're correct!  thanks to you guys, it's working now.
-Stephen

Scott Brady<mailto:evolt at scottbrady.net> on Monday, July 07, 2003 4:20 PM, said:

> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Stephen Caudill" <SCaudill at municode.com>
>>  Can someone tell me why this:
>> 
>> document.getElementById("contact").style.color = '#ffcc00';
>> 
>> is not working?  if you'd like to see the page it's in:
> 
> 
> In your source code, you're calling "getElementById" at the
> top of the page, before the page has been constructed.
> 
> What that means is that your element "contact" doesn't exist yet.
> 
> You need to either call that script as an onload or put it at
> the bottom of the page.  I don't know if putting scripts at
> the bottom validates or not, so I'd do the onload option.
> 
> Scott
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