The "Element has no properties" problem with Prototype.

I wrote a post about this earlier, and simple stated that I "thought" I had solved the solution and provided a very poor explanation of how I had solved it, anyway here's what I did.

After seeing the error I tried many thing, many things did not work. I then tried doing a simple document.getElementById, which did work. Knowing this, I moved the calling of the function into the body.onload event and what do you know? It worked!

This is just another example of my unprofessional "magic touch" with JavaScript. Or not.

Firebug recently gave me this wonderful error, I found it quite...flattering. After about a half-hour screaming at the screen I figured out that I was trying to make a call to a JavaScript function included in the Prototype library, the problem was that the library hadn't been loaded yet, so my function call was looking for a function that did not exist. Or so I think. Anyway, the problem was solved by sacrificing a small animal to the JavaScript gods and putting the code in a function that was only executed once the entire document was loaded. I'm not sure if this workaround fully fixed it or I just got lucky with something, but I'm definitely going to look for some better ways to solve it in the near future.