[javascript] It says that TypeError: document.getElementById(...) is null

Found similar problem within student's work, script element was put after closing body tag, so, obviously, JavaScript could not find any HTML element.

But, there was one more serious error: there was a reference to an external javascript file with some code, which removed all contents of a certain HTML element before inserting new content. After commenting out this reference, everything worked properly.

So, sometimes the error might be that some previously called Javascript changed content or even DOM, so calling for instance getElementById later doesn't make sense, since that element was removed.

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