[Javascript] getElementsByTagName not working ???

[james at southspace.org (James)]

I guess I thought -  the page would load into the browser, then the HTML 
parsed into a data structure (DOM) and then the script run (things like 
document.write executed) and finally the page rendered/displayed.

but it makes sense that it just ploughs straight into it as it comes... 
it's not a problem in the slightest, I am just surprised I didn't know 
about it until now.

James


At 14:30 21/07/2005, you wrote:
>When the browser is parsing an html page and it is comming across a 
><script> tag, it'll parse the contents immediately, because there can be 
>document.write('<span>bla</span>') like statements inside there that need 
>to be parsed at that point. So, when you need to access HTML elements like 
>the anchor you are trying, it must be parsed by the browser at the time 
>your script is fired.
>
>Kim
>
>>Hell, I didn't know you had to worry about that.....
>>
>>Thanks all
>>
>>James
>>
>>At 13:52 21/07/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>>Are you calling this *after* the page loads? Or at least after that
>>>link exists?  :-)
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