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JavaScript

Posted by Mathew Gries
Mathew Gries
7,071 Points

Cannot access offSetLeft property of DOM element

Here is the code

    get htmlToken() {
        return document.getElementById(this.id)
    }

    get offSetLeft(){
        return this.htmlToken.offSetLeft;
    }

Using console, I can see that the DOM object is being retrieved in the get htmlToken() getter method. However, when I try to access the offSetLeft property of it, it is coming back as undefined.

If I console.log the element returned by the htmlToken() getter method, it comes back as plain HTML, instead of the full object, which is what I believe maybe the issue.

If console.dir() the DOM object, I can see the offSetLeft property does exist on the DOM object, as well has having an int value of 0.

1 Answer

Mathew Gries
Mathew Gries
7,071 Points

I figured out what the problem was. The code was not working due to a casing issue I declared the getter method as offsetLeft, but was trying to access is it as offSetLeft.

This is resolved