ID od node element differs than innerHTML

Asked May 27 '18 at 14:38

Active May 27 '18 at 16:51

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I've got a weird bug - the HTML of a form is:

<form id="formId"></form>

but the structure when using document.body.childNodes looks like this:

form#[object HTMLInputElement]

In this case the document.getElementById('[object HTMLInputElement]') works but document.getElementById('formId') doesn't. Why is that?

I cannot update the id due to this bug as it always stay [object HTMLInputElement]. Any ideas?

edited May 27 '18 at 16:51

asked May 27 '18 at 14:38

Mac_W

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`[object HTMLInputElement]` is a string representation of an input field, not a valid CSS selector – Luca Kiebel May 27 '18 at 14:42
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Try `document.getElementById('formId')` – spencer.sm May 27 '18 at 14:44
@spencer.sm - I wrote that this doesn't work. – Mac_W May 27 '18 at 16:52
@Luca This code gets generated by the backend and I cannot update it. – Mac_W May 27 '18 at 16:53

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