Setting a Form Input Value With IE9 (Getting An Error - Unable to set value of the property 'value': object is null or undefined)

My PHP code looks as such:

<a id='next_page' HREF='#' onclick=\"javascript:document.getElementById('page_to_show').value='" . ($page + 1) . "'; return false;\" rel='facebox'>[Next $display_per_page]</a>

As you can see, I am using document.getElementById('page_to_show').value to set the value of the hidden field "page_to_show". I have also tried setting the value of a regular text input field, and I've encountered the same error. I've also tried .Value instead of .value - no luck. This code works in IE8 and FF 3.6.17. Why not IE9? It is sound code, correct? Thank you!

Oh, I've also tried jQuery's method of $("#page_to_show").val("Page Num"); and althou开发者_Python百科gh it hasn't thrown a Javascript error,it doesn't change anything.

I've also tried a temp fix of adding "" however that didn't work either!

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Here's something weird for ya. It wasn't the code. That error was from earlier code, not my updated code. For whatever reason, IE9 isn't refreshing my PHP code! Even if I shift-click refresh, it doesn't refresh my code. I had to exit the browser and open it again for it to refresh. Perhaps thats a setting. Thank you guys! That explains why it was so weird that it wasn't working!

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Are you certain that your input has an id and not just a name attribute? Additionally, I've seen IE get sticky when trying to set the value of input fields that exist outside of a <form>.