getElementbyId in Firefox

cleanair4me46 · Apr 28, 2009

I have getElementById working in IE but it wont work with Firefox.
Anything I need special in Firefox to work with getElementById?

vacunita · Apr 28, 2009

getElementbyId works just fine in FF there should be no difference, how are you attempting to use it?
Can we see a code snippet that illustrates the problem?

Perhaps posting this in forum216 may be more suitable.

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camyba · Apr 29, 2009

Make sure you have correct HTML syntax.

Code:

<html>
<head>...</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>

Had the same problem when one of theese tags were missing.

g0ste · Apr 29, 2009

make sure the element you are calling has an ID and make sure they are unique to that element :]

such as <div id="thisName"... or <select id="thatName"

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Einstein47 · Apr 29, 2009

I have found that IE will use the name attribute in the getElementById() function when the id attribute is missing. This is not correct and encourages non-standard HTML. IE is full of such allowances - it is best to test code in FireFox to ensure standards compliance. Most of what works in FireFox will work in IE (but not vice versa)

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