How do I solve this “Cannot read property 'appendChild' of null” error?
Question
I tried to use this code below, which adds buttons in slideshow on my site:
window.onload = function loadContIcons() {
var elem = document.createElement("img");
elem.src = "http://arno.agnian.com/sites/all/themes/agnian/images/up.png";
elem.setAttribute("class", "up_icon");
var id = "views_slideshow_controls_text_next_slideshow-block";
if (id !== 0) {
document.getElementById(id).appendChild(elem);
} else console.log("aaaaa");
var elem1 = document.createElement("img");
elem1.src = "http://arno.agnian.com/sites/all/themes/agnian/images/down.png";
elem1.setAttribute("class", "down_icon");
var id1 = "views_slideshow_controls_text_previous_slideshow-block";
if (id1 !== 0) {
document.getElementById(id1).appendChild(elem1);
} else console.log("aaaaa");
}
On the front page, where I have slideshow everything works good, but on the other pages the error Cannot read property 'appendChild' of null occurs.
4 answers
solution1
16 ACCPTED 2014-07-30 13:37:32
The element hasn't been appended yet, therefore it is equal to null. The Id will never = 0. When you call getElementById(id), it is null since it is not a part of the dom yet unless your static id is already on the DOM. Do a call through the console to see what it returns.
solution2
4 2017-10-23 06:41:52
只需重新排序或确保在JavaScript之前加载DOM或HTML。
solution3
2 2014-07-30 14:37:13
Your condition id !== 0 will always be different that zero because you are assigning a string value. On pages where the element with id views_slideshow_controls_text_next_slideshow-block is not found, you will still try to append the img element, which causes the Cannot read property 'appendChild' of null error.
Instead of assigning a string value, you can assign the DOM element and verify if it exists within the page.
window.onload = function loadContIcons() {
var elem = document.createElement("img");
elem.src = "http://arno.agnian.com/sites/all/themes/agnian/images/up.png";
elem.setAttribute("class", "up_icon");
var container = document.getElementById("views_slideshow_controls_text_next_slideshow-block");
if (container !== null) {
container.appendChild(elem);
} else console.log("aaaaa");
var elem1 = document.createElement("img");
elem1.src = "http://arno.agnian.com/sites/all/themes/agnian/images/down.png";
elem1.setAttribute("class", "down_icon");
container = document.getElementById("views_slideshow_controls_text_previous_slideshow-block");
if (container !== null) {
container.appendChild(elem1);
} else console.log("aaaaa");
}
solution4
0 2019-06-27 03:53:24
For all those facing a similar issue, I came across this same issue when i was trying to run a particular code snippet, shown below.
<html>
<head>
<script>
var div, container = document.getElementById("container")
for(var i=0;i<5;i++){
div = document.createElement("div");
div.onclick = function() {
alert("This is a box #"+i);
};
container.appendChild(div);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container"></div>
</body>
</html>
https://codepen.io/pcwanderer/pen/MMEREr
Looking at the error in the console for the above code.
Since the document.getElementById is returning a null and as null does not have a attribute named appendChild, therefore a error is thrown. To solve the issue see the code below.
<html>
<head>
<style>
#container{
height: 200px;
width: 700px;
background-color: red;
margin: 10px;
}
div{
height: 100px;
width: 100px;
background-color: purple;
margin: 20px;
display: inline-block;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container"></div>
<script>
var div, container = document.getElementById("container")
for(let i=0;i<5;i++){
div = document.createElement("div");
div.onclick = function() {
alert("This is a box #"+i);
};
container.appendChild(div);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
https://codepen.io/pcwanderer/pen/pXWBQL
I hope this helps. :)
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