Kevin Powell - Community•15mo ago

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whats the solotion for this error

67 Replies

Bardacoon•15mo ago

Are you sure that you can add an onclick to a button like that?

laith•15mo ago

wdym?

Bardacoon•15mo ago

You usually add an addEvenListener

laith•15mo ago

still dont understand u mean i have to use <button>?

Bardacoon•15mo ago

document.getElementById("button").addEventListener('click', () => {...})

document.getElementById("button").addEventListener('click', () => {...})

laith•15mo ago

do u know bro code? on youtube

Bardacoon•15mo ago

laith•15mo ago

look hese on youtube js course he did it liek this and it worked nvm so where do i put the function?

Bardacoon•15mo ago

instead of this function also remember to add "" to the welcome in your code

laith•15mo ago

but i copied the same thing he did and it didint work

Bardacoon•15mo ago

can you send me the video? with the timing

laith•15mo ago

ofc gime a sec

laith•15mo ago

https://youtu.be/8dWL3wF_OMw?si=Dx0JCNXAVseQ7mfJ

Bro Code

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laith•15mo ago

24:42

Bardacoon•15mo ago

I noticed he's using a real button not an input button

laith•15mo ago

should i try and tell u waht happend?

Bardacoon•15mo ago

and also place your script tag right above the </body> Ig

laith•15mo ago

ok ill just do the one u send me but like where do i put the things that happen when clicking it didint work

Bardacoon•15mo ago

can you osend me this code as text? what do you mean?

laith•15mo ago

document.getElementById("button").addEventListener('click', () => {alert("hi")}) like this?

Bardacoon•15mo ago

yeah like this but also when sending code here write 3 of these ```, then the code and again those backticks

laith•15mo ago

how u send it in text liek this document.getElementById("button").addEventListener('click', () => {...})

Bardacoon•15mo ago

laith•15mo ago

nvm it works now thank you so much

Bardacoon•15mo ago

can you still send me the broken code from before? I wanna try to find the error

laith•15mo ago

kk gime a sec wait so how do i send it in text?

Bardacoon•15mo ago

just write it here in discord, but write it like the image i sent you earlier

Bardacoon•15mo ago

laith•15mo ago

code

code

Bardacoon•15mo ago

adding js after the 3 backticks creates the color syntax for the code

laith•15mo ago

ok now gime a sec

Bardacoon•15mo ago

exactly, but instead of code add your own code

laith•15mo ago

btw only js or html also?

Bardacoon•15mo ago

html, js, css, ts, and many other

laith•15mo ago

huh no i mean what do i send u

Bardacoon•15mo ago

oh sorry haha both

laith•15mo ago

console.log("hellow world");
let hellow;
hellow = welcome
document.getElementById("button").onclick = function(){
alert(welcome)
}

console.log("hellow world");
let hellow;
hellow = welcome
document.getElementById("button").onclick = function(){
alert(welcome)
}

this js opps

<html lang="en">
<head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
        <title>js page</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="hi.css">
</head>
<body>
<script src="hi.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="text">
<button type="button" id="button"></button>
<script src="hi.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

<html lang="en">
<head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
        <title>js page</title>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="hi.css">
</head>
<body>
<script src="hi.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="text">
<button type="button" id="button"></button>
<script src="hi.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

anything else bc igtg sleep i hav school

Bardacoon•15mo ago

You're using <script src="hi.js"></script> 2 times, remove the one above. And also when you say

let hellow;
hellow = welcome

let hellow;
hellow = welcome

There's an error because Javascript now sees welcome as a variable, a variable that is not defined. This happens because you need to make it "welcome", surrounded by ". And also it doesn't really make sense to create a blank variable and then give it a value, just write

let hellow = "welcome"

let hellow = "welcome"

This (vvv) is not wrong, it's just weird

let hellow
hellow = "welcome"

let hellow
hellow = "welcome"

curator•15mo ago

do this:

document.getElementById("button")?.onclick

document.getElementById("button")?.onclick

add a question mark before .onclick

Bardacoon•15mo ago

Yeah, also that

laith•15mo ago

yay now i have a new error

Bardacoon•15mo ago

That basically means, if document.getElementById("button") is true (basically means, if it exists) run the onclick else, stop send the code and error

laith•15mo ago

the code is the same but with the ?

Jochem•15mo ago

yeah, this doesn't work in assignment cases

laith•15mo ago

so waht this error means?

Bardacoon•15mo ago

it says there's something wrong at line 4, what's line 4 tho

Jochem•15mo ago

that you can't use the null safe property accessor (?.) on the left side of an assignment operator (=)

laith•15mo ago

document.getElementById("button")?.onclick = function(){ this so i remove the "="? nvm am dum

Bardacoon•15mo ago

no, remove the ?, listen to @Jochem (i think)

laith•15mo ago

dam

Jochem•15mo ago

remove the ? yeah

laith•15mo ago

now it works smh

Jochem•15mo ago

which script tag did you remove?

laith•15mo ago

wdym? the one in the top

4ngel_._•15mo ago

? is optional chaining

Bardacoon•15mo ago

he had 2 script tags

<script src="hi.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="text">
<button type="button" id="button"></button>
<script src="hi.js"></script>

<script src="hi.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="text">
<button type="button" id="button"></button>
<script src="hi.js"></script>

laith•15mo ago

all i did was ading then removing the "?" then it works like how

Jochem•15mo ago

that error was happening because you had a script tag loading your script in your HTML before your button. The button didn't exist yet when the code was running. When you put the script tag at the end, then the browser already knows about all the other elements in the page and that makes it so that document.getElementById can find the button

laith•15mo ago

ohhhhhhhh i always put my script upper thats why so every thing was bc of the script tag

curator•15mo ago

adding a safe check will resolve i guess

Jochem•15mo ago

not everything, the other things Bardacoon pointed out were still also good points

laith•15mo ago

now i can contenue js after 2 weeks of stucking at this error yay

Bardacoon•15mo ago

You can put the script tag wherever you want if you add defer https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_script_defer.asp (it's recommended placing the script tag in the header tho)

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laith•15mo ago

mhm thx every one oh that will help alot now i gtg sleep thx and bye👋

snxxwyy•15mo ago

i'd recommend mdn not w3schools, w3schools has a lot of bad practices and outdated methods.

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