> Just tossing in: Alternately, the <script> block that has the "active"
> part can be placed at the end of the document, so the DOM elements are
> loaded by the time the browser reaches that <script> tag.
I've never been comfortable relying on that. I've heard people say it,
some of them even people who seem like they know what they're doing,
but I've never been comfortable *relying* on it. I really should find
(or do) some really robust tests, probably a point of ignorance for
me.
Good catch that his script block *is* at the end. If you can count on
elements being in place at that point, any idea why it's failing?
-- T.J.
On Dec 12, 2:00 am, "joe t." <thooke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Always makes me eager to jump in and spend my time helping. ;-)
>
> Nice.
>
> Just tossing in: Alternately, the <script> block that has the "active"
> part can be placed at the end of the document, so the DOM elements are
> loaded by the time the browser reaches that <script> tag. You knew
> that, but OP maybe didn't.
> -joe t.
>
> On Dec 11, 11:02 am, "T.J. Crowder" <t...@crowdersoftware.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > > I have not really tried to debug this.
>
> > Always makes me eager to jump in and spend my time helping. ;-)
>
> > But the error is obvious enough in this case: You're trying to access
> > the DOM from inline script, which won't work; the DOM doesn't exist
> > when that script is executed. You need to use the window.load or
> > dom:loaded event.
>
> > document.observe('dom:loaded', function() {
> > // Create the autocompleter
>
> > });
>
> > HTH,
> > --
> > T.J. Crowder
> > Independent Software Consultant
> > tj / crowder software / comwww.crowdersoftware.com
>
> > On Dec 11, 3:10 pm, mjk <mj.kelle...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > The error must be coming from another method that retrieves
> > > 'element'. I have not really tried to debug this. Wondering if
> > > anyone else has had this problem, and how they remedied it.
>
> > > The HTML
>
> > > <html>
> > > <head>
> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
> > > <script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:4402/author/js/
> > > prototype.js"></script>
> > > <script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:4402/author/js/
> > > effects.js"></script>
> > > <script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:4402/author/js/
> > > controls.js"></script>
> > > <style type="text/css">
> > > div.autocomplete {
> > > position:absolute;
> > > width:250px;
> > > background-color:white;
> > > border:1px solid #888;
> > > margin:0;
> > > padding:0;}
>
> > > div.autocomplete ul {
> > > list-style-type:none;
> > > margin:0;
> > > padding:0;}
>
> > > div.autocomplete ul li.selected { background-color: #ffb;}
> > > div.autocomplete ul li {
> > > list-style-type:none;
> > > display:block;
> > > margin:0;
> > > padding:2px;
> > > height:32px;
> > > cursor:pointer;}
>
> > > </style>
> > > </head>
> > > <body>
> > > <label for="input">Autotext:</label>
> > > <input type="text" id="input" name="input" size="15" />
> > > <div id="results" class="autocomplete" style="display: none;
> > > position:relative;"></div>
> > > <script type="text/javascript">
> > > var txtid = 'input';
> > > var divid = 'results';
> > > var server = 'http://localhost:8080/ewcmtestbed/autocomplete';
> > > new Ajax.Autocompleter(txtid, divid, server, { tokens: ','});
> > > </script>
> > > </body>
> > > </html>
>
> > > The error:
> > > In prototype.js
> > > element is null
>
> > > The method:
> > > cleanWhitespace: function(element) {
> > > element = $(element);
> > > var node = element.firstChild;
> > > while (node) {
> > > var nextNode = node.nextSibling;
> > > if (node.nodeType == 3 && !/\S/.test(node.nodeValue))
> > > element.removeChild(node);
> > > node = nextNode;
> > > }
> > > return element;
> > > },
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