Wow, it works fine now, thanks very much.

On Apr 15, 3:48 pm, Szymon Wilkołazki <wilkola...@gmail.com> wrote:
> SamuelXiao wrote:
> > I am writing an application using prototype.js and dialog.2.0.js
> > (http://roland.devarea.nl/dialog/#e6) the iframe effect.  But I
> > encountered a problem when I try to fitting it into my application.
> > What I want to do is that when a user click <a href="#"
> > id="dialog_1">Show Iframe</a> , a dialog box will be shown.  Thus, I
> > use the following code,
>
> > //showiframe.js
> > var modal =        new Dialog({
> >            handle: '#dialog_1',
> >            title: 'Google.com',
> >            width: 'max',
> >            height: 'max',
> >            padding:0,
> >            margin: 75,
> >            iframe:'http://www.google.com'
> >    });
>
> > $('dialog_1').observe('click',function(){
> >    modal.open();
> > });
>
> > then in my page, i have,
> > <head>
> [...]
> >    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/showiframe.js"></script>
> > </head>
> > and embeding the javascript in the main page,
> [...]
> > It works fine.  Does anyone know how can I implement it in an
> > unobtrusive way?  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Hey,
>
> The problem you encountered is the fact that you execute the
> $('dialog_1') function as soon as the script file loads, and not after
> the DOM tree is ready. At the point that script is loaded not all the
> html might be loaded and parsed by the browser.
>
> What you need to do is to defer executing all the DOM related code to
> the moment when the page is completely parsed and the Document Object
> Model tree is ready in browser.
>
> Prototype.js gives you a simple way to do that all. You just need to
> wrap the code in a function and make that function execute when DOM is
> ready:
>
> Event.observe(document, 'dom:loaded', //the prototype.js magic event
>      function () {
>         $('dialog_1').observe('click',function(){
>                 modal.open();
>         });
>
> });
>
> You can read more on this on unofficial 
> wiki:http://proto-scripty.wikidot.com/prototype:element-has-no-properties
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> SWilk
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