Question

I have created an object at runtime by using innerHTML tag, now I want to access this element by using getElementById, when I accessed the element its return NULL value. Kindly suggest me any direction so that I can acheive this,

Here is the following code hint which I am using

In HTML

<div id="web">
<object id="test"></object>
</div>

In JS

document.getElementById("web").innerHTML="<object id='test2'></object>";
.
.
var obj = document.getElementById("test2");

Here obj return null value.

Answer 1

Did you assign an id to the freshly created element? Did you insert the element into the document tree (using appendChild or insertBefore)? As long as the element is not inserted into the DOM, you can’t retrieve it using document.getElementById.

Example of element creation:

var myDiv = document.createElement('div');
myDiv.id = 'myDiv';
document.body.appendChild(myDiv);
document.getElementById('myDiv').innerHTML = 'this should have worked...';

[edit] Given the later supplied code, a third question emerges: is your script located at the bottom of your html page (right before the closing </body> tag)? If it’s in the header of the document, your scripting may be running before the document tree is completely rendered. If your script has to be in the header of the document, you could use a load handler to run it after rendering of the document:

window.onload = function(){
  document.getElementById("web").innerHTML='<object id="test2"></object>';
  // [...]
  var obj = document.getElementById('test2');
};