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JavaScript

codekudos
codekudos
15,316 Points
Posted by codekudos
codekudos
15,316 Points

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'innerHTML' of null

// html file -- located in the body section of index.html

<div id ="output">

</div>

//javascript file 

var person = {
    name : 'me',
    country : 'US',
    student : true,
    skills : ['HTML', 'JavaScript', 'CSS']
};

function print (message){ var outputDiv = document.getElementById('output'); outputDiv.innerHTML= message; }

var message = '<p> Hello. My name is ' + person.name + '</p>'; html += '<p> I live in' + person.country + '</p>'; print(message);

/*When I call the print function an Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'innerHTML' of null. - I am not using workspaces */

Adam Beer
Adam Beer
11,314 Points

Code Wrap your code with 3 backticks (```) on the line before and after. If you specify the language after the first set of backticks, that'll help us with syntax highlighting.

      ```html
      <p>This is code!</p>
      ```

2 Answers

Adam Beer
Adam Beer
11,314 Points

Your code is good, you are near! Just a typo. Correct your code, you wrote this: 

html += '<p> I live in' + person.country + '</p>';

but now the good way is, you don't use in the code var html

message += '<p> I live in' + person.country + '</p>';