I am trying to use this Tab script on my site. I am using IE7 and FireFox, Both of the browsers are displaying this error more often than not: Error: document.getElementById("buttons") is null
I am totally new to JS and Ive tried a few tabs already and this seems to be the simplest one of them all, i like the layout of it too.
Im at a loss as to what the problem is.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanx
Here's the JS Ive got:
Code:
onload = function() {
var e, i = 0;
while (e = document.getElementById('buttons').getElementsByTagName ('DIV') [i++]) {
if (e.className == 'on' || e.className == 'off') {
e.onclick = function () {
var getEls = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
for (var z=0; z<getEls.length; z++) {
getEls[z].className=getEls[z].className.replace('show', 'hide');
getEls[z].className=getEls[z].className.replace('on', 'off');
}
this.className = 'on';
var max = this.getAttribute('title');
document.getElementById(max).className = "show";
}
}
}
}
<div id="buttons">
<div class="on" title="Details"><span>Details</span></div>
<div class="off" title="Info"><span>Information</span></div>
<div class="off" title="Contact"><span>Contact us</span></div>
<div class="off" title="tab"><span>tab</span></div>
<div class="off" title="tab1"><span>tab 1</span></div>
</div>
<div id="Details" class="show">
<p>Although he showed an early talent for art and began painting his native Suffolk scenery before he left school, his great originality matured slowly.</p>
<p>He committed himself to a career as an artist only in 1799, when he joined the Royal Academy Schools and it was not until 1829 that he was grudgingly made a full Academician, elected by a majority of only one vote.</p>
<p>In 1816 he became financially secure on the death of his father and married Maria Bicknell after a seven-year courtship and in the fact of strong opposition from her family. During the 1820s he began to win recognition: The Hay Wain (National Gallery, London, 1821) won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824 and Constable was admired by Electronoics Store</p>
<p>His wife died in 1828, however, and the remaining years of his life were clouded by despondency.</p>
<br class="clear" />
<p>This text is an excerpt from</p>
</div>
<div id="Info" class="hide">
<p>His youth was spent in Le Havre, where he first excelled as a caricaturist but was then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor from whom he derived his firm predilection for painting out of doors.</p>
<<p>In 1859 he studied in Paris at the Atelier Suisse and formed a friendship with. After two years' military service in Algiers, he returned to Le Havre and met whom he said he owed `the definitive education of my eye'.</p>
<p>He then, in 1862, entered the studio of Gleyre in Paris and there met Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille, with whom he was to form the nucleus of the Impressionist group.</p>
<p>Monet's devotion to painting out of doors is illustrated by the famous story concerning one of his most ambitious early works, Women in the Garden (Musée d'Orsay, Paris; 1866-67). The picture is about 2.5 meters high and to enable him to paint all of it outside he had a trench dug in the garden so that the canvas could be raised or lowered by pulleys to the height he required.</p>
<p> visited him when he was working on it and said Monet would not paint even the leaves in the background unless the lighting conditions were exactly right.</p>
<br class="clear" />
</div>
<div id="Contact" class="hide">
<p>With and greatest of Post-Impressionist artists. He powerfully influenced the current of in modern art. His work, all of it produced during a period of only 10 years, hauntingly conveys through its striking colour, coarse brushwork, and contoured forms the anguish of a mental illness that eventually resulted in suicide. Among his masterpieces are numerous self-portraits and the well-known (1889).</p>
<br class="clear" />
<p>This text is an excerpt from</p>
</div>
<div id="tab" class="hide">
<p>Russian-born French painter. Born to a humble Jewish family in the ghetto of a large town in White Russia, Chagall passed a childhood steeped in Hasidic culture.</p>
<p>Very early in life he was encouraged by his mother to follow his vocation and she managed to get him into a St Petersburg art school. Returning to Vitebsk, he became engaged to Bella Rosenfeld (whom he married twelve years later), then, in 1910, set off for Paris, 'the Mecca of art'.</p>
<p>He was a tenant at La Ruche, where he had Modigliani and Soutine for neighbours. His Slav Expressionism was tinged with the influence of Jean-François Millet, the Nabis and the Fauves.</p>
<br class="clear" />
<p>Essentially a colourist, Chagall was interested in the Simultaneist vision of Robert Delaunay and the Luminists of the Section d'Or.</p>
</div>
<div id="tab1" class="hide">
<p>Pablo Picasso, born in Spain, was a child prodigy who was recognized as such by his art-teacher father, who ably led him along.</p>
<p>The small Museo de Picasso in Barcelona is devoted primarily to his which include strikingly realistic renderings of casts of ancient sculpture.</p>
<p>He was a rebel from the start and, as a teenager, began to frequent the Barcelona cafes where intellectuals gathered.</p>
<p>He soon went to Paris, the capital of art, and soaked up the works of Manet, Gustave Courbet, and whose sketchy style impressed him greatly. Then it was back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain - all in the years 1899 to 1904.</p>
<br class="clear" />
<p><br /></p>
</div>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
<style type="text/css">
/*<![CDATA[*/
#buttons {
width:450px;
padding:15px 0 0 0;
line-height:15px;
}
#buttons div.off {
color:#000;
height:33px;
margin-right:2px;
line-height:33px;
padding:0 20px;
float:left;
background:url('../media/tabs_0.gif') repeat-x left bottom;
border:1px solid #ddd;
border-bottom-color:#000;
cursor:pointer;
position:relative; z-index:20;
}
#buttons div.on {
color:#c00;
padding:0 20px;
margin-right:2px;
margin-top:1px;
float:left;
background:url('../media/tabs_2.gif') repeat-x left bottom;
border:1px solid #000;
cursor:pointer;
border-bottom:0;
height:33px;
line-height:32px;
position:relative; z-index:100;
}
div.hide {
display:none;
width:0;
overflow:hidden;
}
div.show {
clear:left;
background:#fff;
width:450px;
margin-top:0;
top:-1px;
border:1px solid #000;
padding:20px;
position:relative; z-index:50;
line-height:18px;
}
div.show img {
float:left;
margin:0 10px 10px 0;
}
.clear {clear:both;}
/*]]>*/
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/
window.onload = function() {
var e, i = 0;
while (e = document.getElementById('buttons').getElementsByTagName ('DIV') [i++]) {
if (e.className == 'on' || e.className == 'off') {
e.onclick = function () {
var getEls = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
for (var z=0; z<getEls.length; z++) {
getEls[z].className=getEls[z].className.replace('show', 'hide');
getEls[z].className=getEls[z].className.replace('on', 'off');
}
this.className = 'on';
var max = this.getAttribute('title');
document.getElementById(max).className = "show";
}
}
}
}/*]]>*/
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="buttons">
<div class="on" title="Details"><span>Details</span></div>
<div class="off" title="Info"><span>Information</span></div>
<div class="off" title="Contact"><span>Contact us</span></div>
<div class="off" title="tab"><span>tab</span></div>
<div class="off" title="tab1"><span>tab 1</span></div>
</div>
<div id="Details" class="show">
<p>Although he showed an early talent for art and began painting his native Suffolk scenery before he left school, his great originality matured slowly.</p>
<p>He committed himself to a career as an artist only in 1799, when he joined the Royal Academy Schools and it was not until 1829 that he was grudgingly made a full Academician, elected by a majority of only one vote.</p>
<p>In 1816 he became financially secure on the death of his father and married Maria Bicknell after a seven-year courtship and in the fact of strong opposition from her family. During the 1820s he began to win recognition: The Hay Wain (National Gallery, London, 1821) won a gold medal at the Paris Salon of 1824 and Constable was admired by Electronoics Store</p>
<p>His wife died in 1828, however, and the remaining years of his life were clouded by despondency.</p>
<br class="clear" />
<p>This text is an excerpt from</p>
</div>
<div id="Info" class="hide">
<p>His youth was spent in Le Havre, where he first excelled as a caricaturist but was then converted to landscape painting by his early mentor from whom he derived his firm predilection for painting out of doors.</p>
<<p>In 1859 he studied in Paris at the Atelier Suisse and formed a friendship with. After two years' military service in Algiers, he returned to Le Havre and met whom he said he owed `the definitive education of my eye'.</p>
<p>He then, in 1862, entered the studio of Gleyre in Paris and there met Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille, with whom he was to form the nucleus of the Impressionist group.</p>
<p>Monet's devotion to painting out of doors is illustrated by the famous story concerning one of his most ambitious early works, Women in the Garden (Musée d'Orsay, Paris; 1866-67). The picture is about 2.5 meters high and to enable him to paint all of it outside he had a trench dug in the garden so that the canvas could be raised or lowered by pulleys to the height he required.</p>
<p> visited him when he was working on it and said Monet would not paint even the leaves in the background unless the lighting conditions were exactly right.</p>
<br class="clear" />
</div>
<div id="Contact" class="hide">
<p>With and greatest of Post-Impressionist artists. He powerfully influenced the current of in modern art. His work, all of it produced during a period of only 10 years, hauntingly conveys through its striking colour, coarse brushwork, and contoured forms the anguish of a mental illness that eventually resulted in suicide. Among his masterpieces are numerous self-portraits and the well-known (1889).</p>
<br class="clear" />
<p>This text is an excerpt from</p>
</div>
<div id="tab" class="hide">
<p>Russian-born French painter. Born to a humble Jewish family in the ghetto of a large town in White Russia, Chagall passed a childhood steeped in Hasidic culture.</p>
<p>Very early in life he was encouraged by his mother to follow his vocation and she managed to get him into a St Petersburg art school. Returning to Vitebsk, he became engaged to Bella Rosenfeld (whom he married twelve years later), then, in 1910, set off for Paris, 'the Mecca of art'.</p>
<p>He was a tenant at La Ruche, where he had Modigliani and Soutine for neighbours. His Slav Expressionism was tinged with the influence of Jean-François Millet, the Nabis and the Fauves.</p>
<br class="clear" />
<p>Essentially a colourist, Chagall was interested in the Simultaneist vision of Robert Delaunay and the Luminists of the Section d'Or.</p>
</div>
<div id="tab1" class="hide">
<p>Pablo Picasso, born in Spain, was a child prodigy who was recognized as such by his art-teacher father, who ably led him along.</p>
<p>The small Museo de Picasso in Barcelona is devoted primarily to his which include strikingly realistic renderings of casts of ancient sculpture.</p>
<p>He was a rebel from the start and, as a teenager, began to frequent the Barcelona cafes where intellectuals gathered.</p>
<p>He soon went to Paris, the capital of art, and soaked up the works of Manet, Gustave Courbet, and whose sketchy style impressed him greatly. Then it was back to Spain, a return to France, and again back to Spain - all in the years 1899 to 1904.</p>
<br class="clear" />
<p><br /></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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