Hello,
I am still very new at Javascript, I’ve only recently pursued web design as a vocation.
the issue I am having is the following:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>
<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” lang=“en-US”>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
<script>
var target=document.getElementById("[B]tagline[/B]");
alert([B]target.nodeName[/B]);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id=“container”>
<div id=“tagline”>
<h1>Pizza!</h1>
<p>Welcome to a site about making pizza</p>
</div><!–end tagline–>
<p>General Ingredients</p>
<ul>
<li>Pizza dough</li>
<li>Tomato Sauce</li>
<li>Mozorella cheese</li>
</ul>
<p>While pizza is delicious with the above ingredients, it is even better when you add toppings!</p>
<ul>
<li>Buffalo Chicken</li>
<li>Olives</li>
<li>Extra Cheese</li>
<li>Garic Powder</li>
<li>Onion Powder</li>
<li>Onion</li>
<li>Steak</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
I am currently reading Kevin Yank’s and Cameron Adams’ Simply Javascript book and I have had no issues following it so far, but this very easy bit of code is giving me a tremendous amount of trouble.
This is what I have attempted to diagnose:
- Embed js (I always use external files)
- open html in Chrome, FF, IE
- open html from local path and from my domain via its stage
- empty browser’s saved data (cookies, cache, history etc)
- Ensure HTML markup is not impeding JS -> W3C XHTML valid
- Reread Simply Javascript Chapter 3.
Its beyond me as to why such a simple and small amount of code could possibly fail. Thanks for reading and offering suggestions!