GetElementById Example JavaScript (JS): HTML DOM Objects – Document Object Methods – GetElementById Example JavaScript (JS)

GetElementById Example JavaScript (JS): HTML DOM Objects – Document Object Methods – GetElementById Example JavaScript (JS)

Purpose: – Illustrates the for the .

View Other HTML DOM Document Objects

Prerequistes:

Syntax: getElementById(“objectid”) – Allows you to access the first object with the specified id

Restrictions: Does not work in Firefox

Notes:

  • You can build your own library of syntax examples by using same web site over and over and just add new files to it.

Instructions:

  1. Use Visual Web Developer 2008
  2. Create new web site;
    • Click File/New Web Site
    • Select ASP.NET Website Template
    • Select C-Sharp for Language
    • name of Web Site could be JavaScript_Syntax.
  3. Folder

  4. Add New folder named “HTMLDOMObjects”
    • Right-click project name in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: HTMLDOMObjects
  5. Add New subfolder to “HTMLDOMObjects” folder named “DocumentObjectMethods”
    • Right-click folder named “HTMLDOMObjects” in solution explorer;
    • add new folder;
    • name of folder should be: DocumentObjectMethods
  6. Add HTML Page Named GetElementById to DocumentObjectMethods subfolder
    • Right-click DocumentObjectMethods subfolder;
    • add new item;
    • Select HTML Page
    • HTML Page name should be GetElementById
  7. Click on copy code in code below to copy code into HTML Page GetElementById.htm
  8. Right-click on HTML page GetElementById.htm and select view in browser
  9. < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
     
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>IdealProgrammer.com: getElementById() </title>
        <!-- 
        ***************************************************
        * This example is from http://idealprogrammer.com *
        ***************************************************
        -->
     
        <script type="text/javascript">
            //*****************************************************
            // DOM Document
            //*****************************************************
     
     
            //*****************************************************
            //    ***    Document Object Methods   ***
            //*****************************************************
     
            //*****************************************************
            // getElementById()
            //*****************************************************
     
            //    SYNTAX:
            //    getElementById()      Allows you to access the first object with the specified id
            //
     
     
     
            function retrieveText() {
                var x = document.getElementById("myDiv")
                TextArea1.value = x.innerHTML
            }
    </script>
       </head>
      <body>
      <div id="myDiv" onclick="retrieveText()">Click on this text to see it magically appear in textbox</div>
      <br /> <br />
     
          <textarea id="TextArea1" cols="35" rows="3"></textarea>
      </body>
    </html>