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Feb 27.2009

hello

I am getting “div” element by this way and assign a value.

document.getElementById(‘div’).style.left=xx

But it is null

what are the possible problem ?

regards

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@TheBearMayFeb 27.2009 — #1 div is a reserved word and therefore shouldn't be used as an ID

#2 If you are setting ....left to anything other than zero you need to include the unit (px, em, etc).
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@skywalker2208Feb 27.2009 — What does your html code look like because I am assuming that div is just the div html tag? If you want to target a specific div with the getElementById method then you need to give your div an id like [code=php]<div id="mydivid">[/code]. The getElementById on targets the id on the html elements, not the html element itself.
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