javascript - "getElementsByTagName(...)[0]" is undefined?

Sunday 28 July 2019

I have the following code, which basically toggles through a bunch of images.



    

        
    

    
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For some reason, when I run it, nothing happens, because of the following error as displayed by my Firebug console.

    hbutton is undefined    

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    hbutton.onclick = function() {

When I run just the JS after the page has loaded however, it works perfectly fine!!! Why is this?

Answer

Your code is executing before the h1 tag is defined. You must run it in an onload handler or put it just before /body

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