[RESOLVED] very simple question.

[BrownWarrior]

can't get this very simple thing right even though I wrote some considerably more complex code yesterday. Please can you tell me what I am getting wrong?

document.onload = function() {
    alert("fired");
    var rating = getElementById("ratingField");
    if (rating == null) {
        alert("not null");
    }
}

the function isn't firing at all as far as I can tell, I get no alerts.

I tried window.onload and if fires but document.onload isn't firing.

thanks,

[Fang]

Because it's not supported: http://my.opera.com/hallvors/blog/20...d-became-a-bug

[BrownWarrior]

Okay thanks Fang!

I haven't written any javascript in a while and I was sure that that code worked for me before! now I know why!! haha

but is there an alternative? if I use window.onload it tells me that my line

var rating = getElementById("ratingField");

expects an object, I presume because it can't find ratingField because it hasn't been loaded.

So what is the new technique of running scripts when the page has loaded?

[Fang]

window.onload = function() {
    alert(" fired");
    var rating = document.getElementById("ratingField");
    if (rating == null) {
        alert("not null");
    }
};

[BrownWarrior]

Thanks Fang,


I'm still pretty new to javascript. Should start to remember these school boy errors soon. I'm starting to get a bit of satisfaction out of writing code now anyway, It's begginning to make sense!