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hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join dom exception 8 an attempt was made to reference a node in a context where it does not exist the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Uncaught Error: NOT_FOUND_ERR: DOM Exception 8 for appendChild call [duplicate] up vote 10 down vote favorite Possible Duplicate: javascript appendChild doesn't work The error occurs on the last line of this snippet: var anchor = " "+ imagename + ""; var specialdiv = document.getElementById("specialdiv"); console.log("div: " + specialdiv); specialdiv.appendChild(anchor); There's really nothing else going on... I verified that specialdiv isn't null or something like that. Can anyone explain why I'm getting this error on that line? javascript share|improve this question asked Jul 24 '12 at 22:45 user5243421 1,99395386 marked as duplicate by epascarello, Felix Kling, Esailija, Jason Sturges, Graviton Aug 14 '12 at 2:34 This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question. 3 appendChild expects a DOM element, not a string: developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Node.appendChild –Felix Kling Jul 24 '12 at 22:47 add a comment| 2 Answers 2 active oldest votes up vote 13 down vote accepted don't pass a string, but an element var link = document.createElement('a'); link.innerHTML = imagename; link.id = "hostname"; link.href = destination; var specialdiv = document.getElementById("specialdiv"); specialdiv.appendChild(link); share|improve this answer answered Jul 24 '12 at 22:50 Kristian 10.5k74093 add a comment| up vote 2 down vote You are getting that error because appendChild takes DOM elements, not strings. You need to actually create a DOM element before using appendChild. var anchor = document.createElement('a'); anchor.id = "hostname"; anchor.href = destination; anchor.innerHTML = imagename; var specialdiv = document.getElementById("specialdiv"); specialdiv.appendChild(anchor); share|improve this answer answered Jul 24 '12 at 22:48 Rocket Hazmat
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here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7592563/uncaught-error-not-found-err-dom-exception-8 answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the http://reference.sitepoint.com/javascript/DOMException company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join dom exception the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up uncaught error NOT_FOUND_ERR DOM Exception 8 up vote 6 down vote favorite So I am deleting all the contents under a dom exception 8 particular div and adding a message content. However, javascript throw the following error after the finish: Uncaught Error: NOT_FOUND_ERR: DOM Exception 8 Here is the code where it is executed new Ajax.Request("profileThis.php", { method:'post', parameters:{title:title, review:review, userId:userId, category:category, categoryId:categoryId}, onSuccess:function(ajax) { alert(ajax.responseText); // this is just for debugging purposes var message=ajax.responseText; var divMessage=document.createElement("div"); divMessage.style.color="rgb:(105,105,105)"; divMessage.innerHTML=message; while($("reviewSheet").hasChildNodes) { $("reviewSheet").removeChild($("reviewSheet").lastChild); } $("reviewSheet").adopt(divMessage); }, onFailure:ajaxFailure, onException:ajaxFailure }); People commented that the problem was with how I assigned divMessage to reviewSheet. I tried both adopt and appendChild but none works. A little help would be appreciated. javascript exception appendchild share|improve this question asked Sep 29 '11 at 4:49 user945221 1 Is this MooTools? –epascarello Sep 29 '11 at 4:54 $("reviewSheet") What it's? You uses javascript frameworks, or it an alias for document.getElementById()? If you need to remove all nodes from element (empty element) simply use element.innerHTM
(more…) IE7 FF1.5+ SA1.3+ OP9+ None Full Full Full Examplevar node = document.getElementsByTagName('h1').item(0); var refnode = node.nextSibling; var newnode = document.createTextNode('That is why you fail.'); node.insertBefore(newnode, refnode); The example above shows an insertBefore operation that will fail, because refnode is not a child of node. That operation produces the following exception in Opera: Inline script thread Error: Unhandled Exception: [Object DOMException] code: 8 message: NOT_FOUND_ERR DescriptionThe DOMException interface represents a processing error, for example when trying to create an invalid DOM, or passing a non-existent node as an argument to node manipulation methods. An exception is raised when an operation is impossible to perform, ie. in "exceptional" circumstances. The DOM does not define an exception for every possible error that might occur, for example syntax errors in arguments are not included, and in such cases an implementation will use its own error reporting mechanism to deal with them. : How DOM Exceptions are implemented in modern browsers In practise, what we find is that most browsers implement DOM exceptions as part of their native mechanism, passing the exception code and message as the details of the error, along with any additional information the browser is able to provide (such as line number or stacktrace). Exceptions in JavaScript can be handled using the try...catch...finally construct. Compatibility Internet Explorer Firefox Safari Opera 5.5 6.0 7.0 1.5 2.0 3.0 1.3 2.0 3.0 9.0 9.5 None None None Full Full Full Full Full Full Full Full Internet Explorer does not implement this interface, and uses its native error reporting syntax only; for example, the example above would throw Invalid argument). In XML a more informative description will be given — for this example, Insert position Node must be a Child of the Node to insert under. : Caveat for Safari Safari 1.3 and 2 do not report the error name, only the error c