document.getElementById(cis) has no properties

[requiem]

Awesome. It works, thank you very much Twey.

And just to clarify that I understand what you're saying. B/c sc1 hasn't been selected you basically cannot have it initially selected...that being because it doesn't exist until it is selected?

[Twey]

No... you can't have it initially selected, quite simply, because there is no element with the ID "sc1."

[requiem]

Okay, yes, I understand now. I had been looking at a bunch of other scripts trying to figure out this issue and saw others using sc1 and forgot it wasn't in the script I was using.

Thank you again though, I really appreciate it.