How do I access a DIV from javascript, if ASP.NET mangles its ID?

Posted by Rising Star on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Rising Star
Published on 2010-06-15T19:03:57Z Indexed on 2010/06/15 22:12 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 186

Filed under:
|
|

I have a web page that contains a "div" element. On the page, there is javascript to reference the div: document.getElementById('divId'). This was working fine until another developer redesigned the page to use an ASP master page.

Now, document.getElementById('divId') returns null. It appears that ASP.net prepends some characters to the names of elements within contents forms when you use a master page. How can I know what the id of the div is when the page loads?

Update Allow me to give a specific example to clarify the question: My page had a div with ID divNotice. After changing my page to use a master page, I see when I print the source to the page that renders that the div ID is ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_divNotice. My question is, how am I supposed to know what the div ID is going to be when the framework is done with it?

© Stack Overflow or respective owner

Related posts about ASP.NET

Related posts about JavaScript