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Re: Not able to obtain any form objects

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On Tuesday, January 1, 2019 at 7:12:49 AM UTC-5, Julio Di Egidio wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 January 2019 00:42:40 UTC+1, Dan Campbell  wrote:
> 
> > When the Javascript code is called, it doesn't seem to have access to any of
> > the elements.
> 
> Scripts execute immediately when encountered by the html parser (unless they
> are marked async: I won't get into that).
> 
> And your code is not wrapped in a function called e.g. on page load,
> it just runs there and then.
> 
> Now notice that you include your scripts before those elements are encountered
> in the document, so those elements indeed do not exist yet at that point.
> 
> All that said, an immediate fix, not to mention a best practice unless one
> has solid reasons to do otherwise, is to include your scripts at the very
> bottom of the page, just before the closing body tag.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Julio

Ugh.  Forgot to throw in an Onclick event.  I had stripped out everything from a longer example, and got rid of anything that would run the actual code.

Anyway, after enclosing the script in a function and referencing it in the onclick event, it's working as expected.

Thanks, Julio and Evertjan.


Regards,

DC

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Not able to obtain any form objects Dan Campbell <dcwhatthe@gmail.com> - 2018-12-31 15:42 -0800
  Re: Not able to obtain any form objects "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-01-01 13:02 +0100
  Re: Not able to obtain any form objects Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2019-01-01 04:12 -0800
    Re: Not able to obtain any form objects Dan Campbell <dcwhatthe@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 06:37 -0800
    Re: Not able to obtain any form objects Dan Campbell <dcwhatthe@gmail.com> - 2019-01-02 14:14 -0800

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