JavaScript Forum

**zhshqzyc** · 06:13 PM

Please my codes!

It doesn't response.

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>DOM</title>
<script language = "javascript">
  
   function run() 
   {
     var x = document.getElementById("p1")
     alert("I am a " + x.tagName + " element")
   }
</script>
</head>
 
</body>
<p id = "p1"
 style = "position: absolute; left: 0; top:0;
          font-family: serif; color: blue">
<onclick="run()">Start!</p>
</html>

**vangogh** · 10-19-2006, 06:16 PM

The onclick event handler works on links. It's not it's own tag. You can try:

<a href="" id="p1" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top:0; font-family: serif; color: blue" onclick="run()">Start!</a>

Better would be to have all the css in either the head of the page or in an external document, but I think the above line of code should work.

**jason_bristol** · 10-19-2006, 06:17 PM

probably because the > next to the blue" and the < next to the onclick.

I just tried it and it now works

**vangogh** · 10-19-2006, 06:35 PM

I wasn't sure if it would work on the paragraph without the link, but that's cool if it does. The problem really was that onclick isn't a tag, but is used as an attribute to a tag.

**seomumbai** · 10-21-2006, 01:26 AM

I think onclick event handler doesnot work with paragraph it works with anchor tags and other buttons.