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Learn more about Labs Change text color with Javascript? Ask Question Asked 11 years, 5 months ago Modified 3 years, 2 months ago Viewed 216k times 25

I want to change the color of a title when a button is clicked. This is my code, but it's not working and I can't figure out why not...

var about; function init() { about = document.getElementById("about").innerHTML; about.style.color = 'blue'; } <div id="about">About Snakelane</div> <input type="image" src="http://www.blakechris.com/snakelane/assets/about.png" onclick="init()" id="btn">

• javascript
• button
• colors
• onclick

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You set the style per element and not by its content:

function init() { document.getElementById("about").style.color = 'blue'; }

With innerHTML you get/set the content of an element. So if you would want to modify your title, innerHTML would be the way to go.

In your case, however, you just want to modify a property of the element (change the color of the text inside it), so you address the style property of the element itself.

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jul 29, 2013 at 13:40 SirkoSirko 74k1919 gold badges153153 silver badges189189 bronze badges Add a comment | 8

use ONLY

function init() { about = document.getElementById("about"); about.style.color = 'blue'; }

.innerHTML() sets or gets the HTML syntax describing the element's descendants., All you need is an object here.

Demo

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Try below code:

$(document).ready(function(){ $('#about').css({'background-color':'black'}); });

http://jsfiddle.net/jPCFC/

Share Improve this answer Follow answered Jul 29, 2013 at 13:45 Nitin ChaurasiaNitin Chaurasia 26311 silver badge55 bronze badges 1

• 4 No mentioning of jQuery anywhere in the question. The function also is in the onclick handler of the <input> element and not in some onload event of the document. – Sirko Commented Jul 29, 2013 at 13:51

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innerHTML is a string representing the contents of the element.

You want to modify the element itself. Drop the .innerHTML part.

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