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I get an error when trying to access an element by getElementById but I know it is in the document. What is wrong?

April 26, 2017DOCUMENT element Error wrong

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I get an error when trying to access an element by getElementById but I know it is in the document. What is wrong?

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You cannot access elements that appear in the document after you try to read them with a DOM method like document.getElementById. You can either: A) include your script after the HTML element it refers to, or B) use the “load” event to trigger your script.