document.querySelector(...) is null error

Question

For image upload in a cakephp project I used java-script.I added this js file in app\View\Layouts default.ctp

js code

document.querySelector('input[type=file]').addEventListener('change', function(event){

  var files = event.target.files;

  for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {

    if (files[i].type.match(/image.*/)) {

        var reader = new FileReader();
        reader.onload = function (readerEvent) {
            var image = new Image();
            image.onload = function (imageEvent) {

                var imageElement = document.createElement('div');
                imageElement.classList.add('uploading');
                imageElement.innerHTML = '<span class="progress"><span></span></span>';
                var progressElement = imageElement.querySelector('span.progress span');
                progressElement.style.width = 0;
                document.querySelector('form div.photos').appendChild(imageElement);


                var canvas = document.createElement('canvas'),
                    max_size = 1200,
                    width = image.width,
                    height = image.height;
                if (width > height) {
                    if (width > max_size) {
                        height *= max_size / width;
                        width = max_size;
                    }
                } else {
                    if (height > max_size) {
                        width *= max_size / height;
                        height = max_size;
                    }
                }
                canvas.width = width;
                canvas.height = height;
                canvas.getContext('2d').drawImage(image, 0, 0, width, height);

                var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
                if (xhr.upload) {

                    // Update progress
                    xhr.upload.addEventListener('progress', function(event) {
                        var percent = parseInt(event.loaded / event.total * 100);
                        progressElement.style.width = percent+'%';
                    }, false);


                    xhr.onreadystatechange = function(event) {
                        if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
                            if (xhr.status == 200) {

                                imageElement.classList.remove('uploading');
                                imageElement.classList.add('uploaded');
                                imageElement.style.backgroundImage = 'url('+xhr.responseText+')';

                                console.log('Image uploaded: '+xhr.responseText);

                            } else {
                                imageElement.parentNode.removeChild(imageElement);
                            }
                        }
                    }

                    xhr.open('post', 'process.php', true);
                    xhr.send(canvas.toDataURL('image/jpeg'));

                }

            }

            image.src = readerEvent.target.result;

        }
        reader.readAsDataURL(files[i]);
    }

}

event.target.value = '';

I have checked there are no problem.

now in add.ctp file I adder

<input type="file" multiple />

In output I am seeing the file type field.Now when I clicked on this field and upload a image then mojila bug given me a error.That is

document.querySelector(...) is null error

I have no idea about this error.In here why saying queryselector is null?

Answer 1

document.querySelector() behaves similarly to the jQuery.(document).ready() method. When the DOM is ready, the selector returns the object.

I would suggest you call all JS script bottom of the page.