coffeecup Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 I do not know why this will not work. i ran it thru firefox many times the syntax is correct. i ran the document write green beans thru and that shows on the doc. could someone please let me know what is wrong with this. thank you <script type="text/javascript"> var paraP = document.getElementsByTagName("p"); for (var i=0; i< paraP.length; i++) { var titleT = paraP[i].getAttribute("title"); if (titleT) alert(titleT); // if the human only writes alert (titleT) without the if (titleT) or any other logical not, alert on its own will not work } </script> <script type="text/javascript"> document.write("green beans"); </script> </head> <body> <h2>what to buy</h2> <p>the brown cow</p> <p>the barking dog</p> <p title="a gentle reminder">Don`t forget to buy this stuff.</p> <ul id="purchases"> <li>a tin of beans</li> <li>cheese</li> <li>milk</li> </ul> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted May 5, 2011 Share Posted May 5, 2011 Scripts in the execute before the document has been loaded. That means the s do not exist yet so getElementsByTagName("p") won't find anything. Simplest solution is to move the Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coffeecup Posted May 5, 2011 Author Share Posted May 5, 2011 Thank you requinix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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