getElementById: Undefined??

cleary1981

Hi,

I have written a function that creates a new object, the problem I am having is trying to refer to these objects in another function. When using getElemenntById I get a value "undefined". Does anyone know where im going wrong?

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 function showObject (){

    if (request.readyState == 4) {

    var returned = request.responseText;

    var splitResult = returned.split(" ");

    var h = splitResult[0];

    var w = splitResult[1];    // the dimensions must be set to a scale as they are to big for the screen. 25px represents 100mm

    h = h/5;

    w = w/5;
 
    cv = document.getElementById("canvas");

    var newObject = document.createElement('div');

    newObject.Class = g_objName;

    newObject.id = "newObject";

    newObject.innerHTML = g_objName;

    newObject.alt = g_objName;

    newObject.style.height = h;

    newObject.style.width = w;

    newObject.onmousedown=function(){grab(this);}    

    cv.appendChild(newObject);

}

}
 
function render () {

    var ww = document.getElementById("newObject").value;

    alert(ww);
 
}

rohypnol

I'm not sure about this, but you might want to try to add this (don't replace the old method of setting the id, just add this one right after it):

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newObject.setAttribute('id', 'newObject');

Also, you want to add a line in the showObject() function which sets a variable to true and then write it using an alert at the begining of render() so you're sure that showObejct() is called before render().

Regards,
Tom

cleary1981

i worked it out. I needed the .id instead of .value

Thanks anyway.

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