Null or Not an Object in IE

[java49768]

OK have the following function in my code:

function newhslide() {
	if (h == hnumslides) h = 0;
	h++;
	document.images['hslide'].src = hpiclist[h];
	document.links['hsurl'].href = hpicurl[h];
}

My html looks like this:

<a href="javascript:void(0);" id="hsurl">
<img alt="header slide" name="hslide" src="images/cartpics/hometop.jpg" height="366" width="700" border="0">
</a>

Now I've got everything set up (array's for hpiclist and hpicurl, etc.) and this is being used as a slideshow. The reason for the void(0) is because only some of the slides are clickable to send you to differrent pages in the site. The first happens to be just a pic and the second has a link. So in my hpicurl array I have the voids for all of the slides that don't need to go anywhere and have an actual link to another page in my site for the one's that do. And of course all of this is working perfectly in Firefox like it always does. However, in IE the line

document.links['hsurl'].href = hpicurl[h];

is giving me the error:

'document.links.hsurl' is null or not an object

I know I'm missing something simple here, but as usual with IE not sure what it is. Any help please?

[Kor]

id and name are different things.

The classical old syntax

document.links['hsurl']

needs a name for your link, not an id.

[java49768]

Thanks for the replay, but

<a href="javascript:void(0);" name="hsurl">

is what I originally had and it doesn't work either. I had just forgotten to change it back before I posted this. My current code has it with name and not id and I get the same error. Any other thoughts?

[jasonahoule]

Why not use document.getElementById('hsurl').href instead?

[java49768]

Unbelievable! Man I hate IE. The way I had it with name was fine provided I didn't use the brackets [ ]. I changed it to parentheses () and it worked in IE. But now Firefox didn't like it. I had tried jasonahoule's suggestion before as one of my tests but I used the [] and of course IE didn't like that. Now using the () instead, it of course worked perfectly in both IE and Firefox. Did I mention I hate IE?

Thanks so much, this has been such a frustrating modification when it only took a few minutes to write in the first place and worked in the only Browser that I'll ever use. Too bad I can't convince everyone else to stop using IE... lol. Thanks again guys!