Turning off asynchronous requests in jQuery fixed the issue.
I have the following Javascript & AJAX request (using jQuery) in my page:
"use strict";
var hsArea, counter, hotspots, count;
counter = 4;
count = 0;
hotspots = {};
function fetchHotspotList() {
$.getJSON ('/alpha/engine/hotspots/gethotspot.php', {'type' : 'list'}, function(json) {
hotspots = json;
});
}
function displayHotspot(type, id, number) {
$.ajax({
url: '/alpha/engine/hotspots/gethotspot.php',
dataType: 'json',
data: {'type' : type, 'id' : id},
success: function(json) {
console.log(json);
var hotspot, extract;
extract = json.content;
extract = extract.replace(/<(?:.|
)*?>/gm, '');
extract = extract.substring(0, 97);
extract = extract + "...";
json.content = extract;
hotspot = document.createElement("div");
hsArea.append(hotspot);
hotspot.setAttribute('class','hotspot');
hotspot.setAttribute('id','hotspot' + number);
$(hotspot).css('position', 'absolute');
$(hotspot).css('top', number * 100 + 100);
$(hotspot).css('left', number * 100 + 110);
hotspot.innerHTML = "<h1>"+ json.title + "</h1><p>" + json.content + "</p>";
},
error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
alert(textStatus, errorThrown);
}
});
}
function listHotspots() {
for(count = 0; count < counter; count++) {
(function(count) {
displayHotspot('scribble',hotspots[count], count);
count = count + 1;
})(count);
}
}
function loadHotspots() {
fetchHotspotList();
listHotspots();
}
$(document).ready(function() {
hsArea = $("#hotspotArea");
fetchHotspotList();
listHotspots();
});
(Sorry the formatting is a bit off!) - Now, the $(document).ready() function assigns the hsArea variable as it should, however, a combination of fetchHotspotList() and listHotspots() returns:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'replace' of null
However, if in the Google Chrome Javascript console, I run:
loadHotspots();
it fetches the data from the AJAX request and displays it properly on the page. At first I thought the problem was that I Wasn't using the $(document).ready() handler, but adding it hasn't fixed it. Neither has using an onload handler inside of the body tag.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards, Ben.