How to find if element with specific id exists or not
In my JavaScript I want to check whether the element with specific id is exist or not, I tried it with 2 ways
1).
var myEle = document.getElementById("myElement");
if(myEle == null){
var myEleValue= document.getElementById("myElement").value;
}
2).
if(getElementById("myElement")){
var myEleValue= document.getElementById("myElement").value;
}
but it gives same error as below -
Object expected
var myEle = document.getElementById("myElement");
if(myEle){
var myEleValue= myEle.value;
}
the return of getElementById is null if an element is not actually present inside the dom, so your if statement will fail, because null is considered a false value
You can simply use if(yourElement)
var a = document.getElementById("elemA");
var b = document.getElementById("elemB");
if(a)
console.log("elemA exists");
else
console.log("elemA does not exist");
if(b)
console.log("elemB exists");
else
console.log("elemB does not exist");
<div id="elemA"></div>