Need help with trying to find an element

[MaRiJaWaNa]

Alright i got this code

try {
var menu = document.getElementbyID("awmAnchor-menu");
} catch(err) {
try {
var menu = document.getElementbyID("nomenu");
} catch (err) {
//Do Nothing
}
}

and the reason it tries both is because the id could be both is this wrong?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

"getElementbyID" should have a lowercase "d".

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Oops - and an uppercase "B" (mine was copied from yours ;-))... it should be "document.getElementById".

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[MaRiJaWaNa]

Also is this how you change a class?

menu.className = "awmAnchor-menu";

 

[MaRiJaWaNa]

var menu;
try {
menu = document.getElementById("awmAnchor-menu");
} catch(err) {
try {
menu = document.getElementById("nomenu");
} catch (err) {
//Do Nothing
}
}

Doesn't seem to work any idea's?

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Perhaps showing the rest of your code (or better still, a URL) and explaining what the code doesn't do that it should would help?

The small snippet you've given looks good in isolation, but we have no idea what else on the page is happening.

For example, we have no idea whether you actually have elements on the page with IDs of 'awmAnchor-menu' or 'nomenu' at the time the code is run.

Dan



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