Object Required Javascript Error Ie8
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Javascript var inItemText = document.getElementById("inItemText"); function doIt() { var itemText; itemText = inItemText.value; document.getElementById("p1").innerHTML = itemText; form1.reset(); } javascript internet-explorer internet-explorer-8 share|improve this question asked Jan 30 '15 at 0:25 MrEhawk82 2231317 add a comment| 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote accepted Make sure you do the inItemText assignment after the DOM has been loaded. Otherwise, document.getElementById("inItemText") won't find the element, because it doesn't exist yet. Either put it at the end of the , or use window.onload: var inItemText; window.onload = function() { inItemText = document.getElementById("inItemText"); }; share|improve this answer answered Jan 30 '15 at 0:36 Barmar 273k23126213 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote You're getting that error because inItemText isn't defined. Use document.getElementById('inItemText'). share|improve this answer answered Jan 30 '15 at 0:28 Matt Harper 1178 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote I think the issue is in this line: itemText = inItemText.value; You need to declare "inItemText" as a variable. Perhaps replace it with: itemText = document.getElementById("inItemText").value share|improve this answer answered Jan 30 '15 at 0:28 Brennan 1,0131513 1 He has that assignment right before the function definition. –Barmar Jan 30 '15 at 0:33 That did the trick. Thank you. If you have time, can you explain why the code works in chrome, but not IE? Andhere for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the 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 the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 6.2 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Javascript object http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28227214/internet-explorer-8-error-object-required-javascript required error in IE up vote 1 down vote favorite i'm creating mulitple planet objects in javascript to handle animation. The animation works fine for each planet but i am getting errors in IE 6/7 saying "object required on line 15 char 2" Code: var earthObj = null; var mercObj = null; var jupiObj = null; var animate; function init() { mercObj = document.getElementById('mercury'); http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10576121/javascript-object-required-error-in-ie earthObj = document.getElementById('earth'); jupiObj = document.getElementById('jupiter'); mercObj.style.position= 'relative'; mercObj.style.left = '54px'; mercObj.style.visibility = 'hidden'; earthObj.style.position= 'relative'; //error on this line earthObj.style.left = '80px'; earthObj.style.top = 300px'; } javascript object animation share|improve this question edited May 13 '12 at 23:50 VisioN 87.2k15146170 asked May 13 '12 at 23:48 user1281921 8629 3 Maybe you missing earth? –VisioN May 13 '12 at 23:50 Show us the markup, and where the script tag is. –Matt Ball May 13 '12 at 23:51 add a comment| 3 Answers 3 active oldest votes up vote 1 down vote Before trying to call an object, test if it exists. earthObj = document.getElementById('earth'); if(!earthObj) { alert("Could not find Earth"); return; } share|improve this answer answered May 14 '12 at 0:08 Niet the Dark Absol 209k37240372 add a comment| up vote 0 down vote I am on mac and don't have any IE to try. Do you get the same error, if you change the code like this: function init() { var earthObj = null; var mercObj = null; var jupiObj = null; var animate; mercObj = document.getElementById('mercury'); earthObj = document.getElementById('earth'); jupiObj = document.getElementById('jupiter'); mercObj.style.position= 'relative'; mer
Sign in Pricing Blog Support Search GitHub This repository Watch 34 Star https://github.com/zikula/core/issues/415 181 Fork 74 zikula/core Code Issues 169 Pull requests 1 Projects 1 Wiki Pulse Graphs New issue in IE8, clicking on a submit button, https://alimanfoo.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/internet-explorer-ajax-gotcha-object-required-error/ gives js error 'Object required' #415 Closed tfotis opened this Issue May 25, 2012 · 2 comments Projects None yet Labels Bug object required Milestone 1.3.4 Assignees jusuff 2 participants Zikula Project member tfotis commented May 25, 2012 to replicate go to Settings module (index.php?module=settings&type=admin&func=modifyconfig) and press save. you will see the error in the bottom-left corner of the browser. the full error is: Message: Object required Line: 363 object required javascript Char: 17 Code: 0 URI: http://example.com/javascript/helpers/Zikula.js jusuff was assigned Jun 23, 2012 Zikula Project member jusuff commented Jun 24, 2012 @tfotis does this error occur each time you click save or only in sometimes? Asking, because I cannot reproduce it. Zikula Project member tfotis commented Jun 25, 2012 yes it happens every time i click 'Save'. maybe it doesn't occur with every version of IE8. mine is 8.0.6001.18702. Windows XP SP3 i tried to track down the issue... the error is in function Zikula.fixbuttons in file javascript/helpers/Zikula.js it looks like b.attributes.getNamedItem('value') is null jusuff added a commit that closed this issue Jul 4, 2012 jusuff fine, but when others ran it on their computers using the same version of IE, they got an "Object Required" javascript error. I discovered (eventually) that, if the response to the XML HTTP request does not have Content-Type "text/xml", then MSXML does not instantiate the responseXML member of the XMLHTTPRequest object, although it will instantiate the responseText member - see the MSXML2 API spec. Once I had fixed the server-side code to return the correct Content-Type, it worked. As an item of good-practice, you should probably include an "Accept: text/xml" header in the request, to be on the safe side. However, the story doesn't quite end there. I also ran into some subtle HTTP proxy and caching issues that I don't fully understand. If you try the above fix, and change your server-side code to return "Content-Type: text/xml" in the response headers, but are still having problems, you should run a test script to check the response headers that your AJAX application is actually receiving. You can get a dump of all the response headers by called the getAllResponseHeaders() method of the XMLHTTPRequest object. I found that, even after I had fixed the server-side code, my AJAX application was still receiving a mysterious "text/html" response on some computers, although this problem disappeared when I fiddled with the HTTP proxy settings in IE. The problem also disappeared when I tunnelled the request through Nettool. As I said, I don't fully understand what's going on, but you might want to clear all temporary internet files in IE before retrying your app, and you might want to include suitable HTTP headers in your XMLHTTPRequest to avoid receiving cached representations. You might also want to include suitable HTTP headers in the server response to prevent caching. As an aside, I initially thought that the problem was something to do with the fact that my server-side component is running in Tomcat, which is acting as a worker for Apache 2. However, I ruled that out when I found the problem disappeared when I fiddled with the proxy settings in IE. I did discover, however, that you can get Apache to modify the HTTP response headers after a request has been handled by a worker. Below is an extract from my Apache config file that I used to experiment with modification of headers. Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-store" Header set Foo "bar" Header set Content-Type "foo/bar" ForceType "foo/ba