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top.wOut.document is null or not an object?

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MarkWaddington

MarkWaddington

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Hi!

I have added a chatroom script to my website, and every time I enter the room the following error occurs: Error: 'top.wOut.document is null or not an object'

To put it into context, here's the script of the page..

toOut = '<font class=&quot;sysmessage&quot;><center>You have entered the chat.<br>Be fair, and please be civil or else you will be swiftly removed</center></font>';
if (document.all) {
top.wOut.document.body.innerHTML += toOut;
} else {
top.wOut.document.write(&quot;<html><style>BODY {font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: #000055; font-size: 12px;} </style><body bgcolor='#FFFFFF'>&quot;);
top.wOut.document.write(toOut);
}
function refresh() {
window.location='receive.php?rid=1&uid=2&username=Mark&tz=0&msgLastCheck=1031144788&allowsounds=1&lang=english';
}


Please can somebody help me! I'm lost with all this, somebody said it might be a cookie error and that it shouldn't happen on all computers.. but every computer i've tried it does happen!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Mark Waddington.
 
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I'm sure you've made an error in object referencing.
This is how to make it (cross-browser solution):
[tt]
if (document.all || document.getElementById)
{
cross_el=document.getElementById? document.getElementById(&quot;changing_div&quot;):document.all.changing_div;
cross_el.innerHTML+=toOut;
}
else if (document.layers){
document.layer1.document.write(toOut);
document.layer1.document.close()
}
[/tt]
I don't know what is &quot;top&quot; and &quot;wOut&quot; in your code, that's why I changed all elements names.
&quot;changing_div&quot; corresponds to <div id=&quot;changing_div&quot;>
and
&quot;layer1&quot; corresponds to the <layer id=&quot;layer1&quot;> - it should be added for compatibility with NN4.x to make the following structure:

<layer id=&quot;layer1&quot;>
<div id=&quot;changing_div&quot;>
c o n t e n t
</div>
</layer>

 
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