innerHTML won't display

TheDust · Aug 31, 2003

This is quite strange... I can't get innerHTML to write almost anywhere on the page. I must be doing SOMETHING wrong and maybe someone can help me see something I didn't realize was required...

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
	document.all.portfolio.innerHTML = &quot;hooray&quot;;
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id=&quot;mainframe&quot;>
	<div id=&quot;banner&quot;></div>
	<div id=&quot;leftframe&quot;>
		<div id=&quot;flower1&quot;></div>
		<div id=&quot;flower2&quot;></div>
		Left
	</div>
	<div id=&quot;rightframe&quot;>
		<div id=&quot;portfolio&quot;></div>
	</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

This does not work, and I have no idea why. Any ideas on this??

vbkris · Sep 1, 2003

does this work?
document.getElementById("portfolio&quot

.innerHTML = "hooray";

Known is handfull, Unknown is worldfull

HarmonicaMan · Sep 1, 2003

The point is that you have called the script before the element has even loaded on the page! So do it in a function which can be called onevent(like onload):
<script language="JavaScript">
function change() {
document.all.portfolio.innerHTML = "hooray";
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="change()">

TheDust · Sep 1, 2003

Thanks... placing it in a function worked... I just have one more problem... the HTML I'm trying to write into the DIV tag is to place a SWF file in there. I'm using the following code:

<code>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
var colorScheme;
var flashMarkup;
colorScheme = "red";
function loadPortfolio(color) {
flashMarkup += "<a href\"=

http://www.dustwurks.com/portfolio\"></a><!--

text used in the movie-->";
flashMarkup += "<object classid=\"clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0\"

width=\"175\" height=\"145\" id=\"images/portfolio_" + color + "\">";
flashMarkup += "<param name=\"movie\" value=\"images/portfolio_" + color + ".swf\" /><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" />";
flashMarkup += "<embed src=\"images/portfolio_" + color + ".swf\" quality=\"high\" width=\"175\" height=\"145\" name=\"portfolio_" + color + "\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspace=\"

http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer\"></embed>";

flashMarkup += "</object>";
document.all.portfolio.innerHTML = flashMarkup;
}
</script>
</head>

<body onLoad="loadPortfolio()">
</code>

The Flash displays just fine, but for some reason, no matter what I take out of the code, it also prints "undefined" on the screen just above the SWF file. Does anyone know what is causing this?

TheDust · Sep 1, 2003

Never mind, I figured that out... I just had to define flashMarkup with = "" to create an empty string type variable.

Thanks for your help, everyone!

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