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Re: Super basic newbie question

From Mike Duffy <never@you.mind.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Super basic newbie question
Date 2012-03-09 01:01 +0000
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"Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote in
news:9a3cb25a-9440-469a-9fc5-5d3cc70ebc7a@p6g2000yqi.googlegroups.com: 
 
> The document.write was just a test to see if my function was being
> called and was working. You totally missed the point of my issue,
> which was that getElementById was returning null.

Perhaps you totally missed the point of his issue, which is that 
"document.write", depending on when it is executed, can mess up the entire 
document, thus making getElementById return null because the corresponding 
element has just been destroyed by the "document.write".

If what he suggested seems to complicated, use named span elements, and 
modify their values using "innerHTML".

Alternatively, define a separate text box above your test field, and append 
values to it as a sort of message log.

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Super basic newbie question "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 06:51 -0800
  Re: Super basic newbie question Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2012-03-08 16:04 +0100
    Re: Super basic newbie question "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 09:15 -0800
      Re: Super basic newbie question Mike Duffy <never@you.mind.com> - 2012-03-09 01:01 +0000
  Re: Super basic newbie question "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-03-08 16:08 +0100
    Re: Super basic newbie question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-09 04:05 +0100
      Re: Super basic newbie question "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-03-09 10:47 +0100
  Re: Super basic newbie question SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-08 16:10 +0100
    Re: Super basic newbie question "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 09:15 -0800
      Re: Super basic newbie question Dr J R Stockton <reply1210@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 21:39 +0000
        Re: Super basic newbie question SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-10 09:55 +0100
          Re: Super basic newbie question Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-03-10 18:19 +0000
            Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-10 21:59 +0000
              Re: Super basic newbie question Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 09:58 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-12 10:02 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 10:57 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 15:39 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-12 15:37 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2012-03-13 10:34 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2012-03-13 10:12 -0600
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-13 19:44 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-13 19:50 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-13 08:58 -0700
            Re: Super basic newbie question SAM <stephanemoriaux.NoAdmin@wanadoo.fr.invalid> - 2012-03-11 00:04 +0100
              Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-10 23:16 +0000
              Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-12 16:41 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-13 19:46 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-14 21:01 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-14 17:18 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-15 20:16 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 14:36 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-15 23:41 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 16:49 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-16 16:55 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-16 18:09 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-16 19:47 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-16 18:27 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Dr J R Stockton <reply1211@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-03-18 19:27 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-18 16:55 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2012-03-17 11:35 +0100
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 09:42 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Eric Bednarz <bednarz@fahr-zur-hoelle.org> - 2012-03-18 01:33 +0100
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 17:46 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 19:45 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-15 10:00 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-17 14:53 +0100
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 12:43 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-17 23:39 +0100
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 15:54 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-03-18 10:48 +0100
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-18 04:06 -0700
                Re: Super basic newbie question Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-18 13:52 +0000
                Re: Super basic newbie question David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-18 12:10 -0700
          Re: Super basic newbie question Dr J R Stockton <reply1210@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2012-03-11 19:02 +0000
  Re: Super basic newbie question "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2012-03-08 17:17 +0200
    Re: Super basic newbie question "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 09:17 -0800
  Re: Super basic newbie question Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-08 08:44 -0800
    Re: Super basic newbie question "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 09:24 -0800
  Re: Super basic newbie question Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2012-03-08 17:03 +0000

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