Do you know why my body tag/element remains empty when I try to use it? I have the following code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<title>Max</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css"/>
<script>
alert(document.getElementsByTagName("*"));
function se(){
var twenty = document.getElementsByTagName("*")[20];
//twenty.children[1].children[0].children[1].innerHTML = "hiephoi";
}
se();
var fg = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];//undefined
</script>
</head>
<body>
<script>
alert(document.getElementsByTagName("*"));
function se(){
var twenty = document.getElementsByTagName("*")[20];
//twenty.children[1].children[0].children[1].innerHTML = "hiephoi";
}
se();</script>
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If I debug this, document.getElementsByTagName("*") does give the list of elements at breakpoint, however, letting the code run gives an error when I ask for
document.getElementsByTagName("*")[20].children[1].children[0].children[1].innerHTML = "hiephoi";
It says document.getElementsByTagName("*")[20].children is no Object, indeed it is undefined. You might wonder why I use the wildcard at all, but just looking for any specific tag returns nothing. Oddly thus, the wildcard does return a list of nodes.
I could try with JQuery but I am trying to understand this.
I'm thinking it might have something to do with the loading stage of the document?
Or could it be that the html contains a missing tag somewhere and the JS gets confused?
