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Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome

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In article <mggd3o$n6r$1@dont-email.me>, Robbie Brown <rob@example.com>
wrote:

>On 13/04/15 13:17, Tim Streater wrote:
>> In article <mgg70i$19a$1@dont-email.me>, Robbie Brown <rob@example.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> function updateCart(cartXML) {
>>>     var cartsnapshot = document.getElementById("cartsnapshot");
>>>     cartsnapshot.innerHTML = getCartSnapshot(cartXML);
>>> }
>>
>> Where is the element cartsnapshot defined? Show us its html. ISTM that
>> there is no such element, in which case
>> document.getElementById("cartsnapshot") will return null. Or you are
>> running this javascript before the element is loaded.
>>
>
>Jeez, It's like herding cats sometimes.

Look, d'ye want help or not?

>I have mentioned repeatedly that this code only causes problems in 
>Chrome, it works fine in other browsers

To me, that indicates that you're doing something in a non-guaranteed
way that just happens to work in those other browsers, but in Chrome
won't because Chrome happens to do things in a different order.

>there is a common header that is included with every page
>
>in the <head> of the common header I have this
>
><script type="text/javascript">
>    window.onload=getCart();
></script>

Personally I tend to do:

  <body onload="getCart();">

which works for me, doubtless others may have other preferences.

-- 
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on
a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web,
when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
computer, another word processor, or another network. -- Tim Berners-Lee

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XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-12 19:36 +0100
  Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2015-04-13 12:33 +0700
    Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-13 07:41 +0100
  Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2015-04-13 11:30 +0200
    Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-13 11:50 +0100
      Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-13 13:17 +0100
        Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-13 13:34 +0100
          Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-13 14:26 +0100
          Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2015-04-13 16:15 +0200
            Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-13 16:03 +0100
              Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2015-04-13 19:26 +0200
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-04-13 20:23 +0200
          Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-13 15:50 +0100
            Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-13 16:10 +0100
              Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-04-13 17:46 +0200
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-13 17:28 +0100
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-04-13 19:14 +0200
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-13 18:29 +0100
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-13 18:59 +0100
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-04-13 20:29 +0200
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-13 19:34 +0100
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-13 20:11 +0100
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-13 20:44 +0200
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-13 20:21 +0100
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-04-14 12:43 +0000
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-14 14:50 +0100
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-14 22:51 +0200
                Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-04-13 22:28 +0200
  Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-13 19:23 +0100
    Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-13 19:38 +0100
  Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org> - 2015-04-13 17:36 -0430
  Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Robbie Brown <rob@example.com> - 2015-04-14 11:35 +0100
  Re: XMLHttpRequest and Google Chrome Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-04-14 11:37 +0000

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