I am getting error only in IE7 as document.body
is null; when I debug with Microsoft script editor I am getting the error in the following line:
i.e.
May also want to use "documentElement":
var elem = document.createElement("div");
elem.style = "width:100px;height:100px;position:relative;background:#FF0000;";
document.documentElement.appendChild(elem);
You can appendChild
to document.body
but not if the document hasn't been loaded. So you should
put everything in:
window.onload=function(){
//your code
}
This works or you can make appendChild
to be dependent on something else like another event for eg.
https://www.w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?filename=tryjsref_doc_body_append
As a matter of fact you can try changing the innerHTML
of the document.body
it works...!
If your script is inside head tag in html file, try to put it inside body tag. CreateElement while script is inside head tag will give you a null warning
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Game</h1>
<script type="text/javascript" src="script.js"></script>
</body>
It is working. Just modify to null check:
if(document.body != null){
document.body.appendChild(element);
}
Pointy's suggestion is good; it may work, but I didn't try.
In 2019 you can use querySelector for that.
It's supported by most browsers (https://caniuse.com/#search=querySelector)
document.querySelector('body').appendChild(i);
You could try
document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(i);
Now that won't do you any good if the code is running in the <head>
, and running before the <body>
has even been seen by the browser. If you don't want to mess with "onload" handlers, try moving your <script>
block to the very end of the document instead of the <head>
.