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document.getElementById("-1").click()
 <div tabindex="-1" id="-1" onclick="console.log('yes1')"></div>

Somehow document.getElementById("-1").click() throws the error Cannot read property 'click' of null.

Please help.

Satpal
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atswann
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  • I've edited your post to include a snippet of your code and it works. – George Dec 05 '16 at 13:40
  • Is that ID unique in the page DOM? – Meezaan-ud-Din Dec 05 '16 at 13:42
  • Use valid Identifiers see [What are valid values for the id attribute in HTML?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/70579/what-are-valid-values-for-the-id-attribute-in-html) – Satpal Dec 05 '16 at 13:42
  • the html actually looks like this. when page is ran. i inspected the elements and the correct ids are set. but it still throws the error – atswann Dec 05 '16 at 15:21

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Your code works. Try to see where do you use click() function and see if they throw an error or not.

document.getElementById("-1").click();
<div tabindex="-1" id="-1" onclick="console.log('yes1')"></div>
Suren Srapyan
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