Why does my DOMParser not parse the following fairly simple DOM structure?

var newDOM ="<div><strong>Error!</strong> Refresh, Please... </div>", parser = new DOMParser(), doc = parser.parseFromString(xmlString, "text/xml");

ReferenceError: xmlString is not defined

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  • 1) You have a variable called newDOM , not xmlString . Did you read the text of the error? 2) Not text/xml , but text/html - Darth

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The error says:

Error with link: xmlString variable not found.

When you call the parser.parseFromString function, you need to pass the newDOM variable to newDOM like this:

 var newDOM ="<div><strong>Error!</strong> Refresh, Please... </div>", parser = new DOMParser(), doc = parser.parseFromString(newDOM, "text/html");

And another newDOM : does not concern this error, but concerns an error in the future: Since your newDOM string is an HTML string, you need to write "text/html" , and not "text/xml" in the second parameter of the parser.parseFromString function.

    The error is all written. The DOM structure is in newDOM , and you are trying to xmlString .