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Chris Vilches
Chris Vilches

Reputation: 1187

Google Tag Manager conflict because in my HTML I have an element with name="ga" and id="ga"?

Is it possible that my GTM code is failing because of some conflict with Google Analytics and an HTML element I have with <input id="ga" name="ga">?

My tag for Google Analytics is:

<style>.async-hide { opacity: 0 !important} </style>
<script>(function(a,s,y,n,c,h,i,d,e){s.className+=' '+y;h.start=1*new Date;
h.end=i=function(){s.className=s.className.replace(RegExp(' ?'+y),'')};
(a[n]=a[n]||[]).hide=h;setTimeout(function(){i();h.end=null},c);h.timeout=c;
})(window,document.documentElement,'async-hide','dataLayer',4000,
{'GTM-XXXXXXXXXXXXX':true});</script>
<script>
  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
  })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

  ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXXXXXX', 'auto');
  ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

Should I change the 'ga' to something else and it'd still work but without the conflicts?

I found this answer but I'm not sure if it's the same issue, however I'll try to do it (the reason why I don't try and test it by myself is because it will take a lot of time until the marketing team can check it).

Changing the Global GA Object in google tag manager

Upvotes: 1

Views: 776

Answers (2)

Chris Vilches
Chris Vilches

Reputation: 1187

As the answer by Michele Pisani says, it does conflict, and it can be solved with this answer (changing the global function name):

Changing the Global GA Object in google tag manager

Upvotes: 0

Michele Pisani
Michele Pisani

Reputation: 14199

Yes, it is certainly a cause.

The error it will generate is:

Uncaught TypeError: ga is not a function

You can see it in this JSFiddle (see error in console).

Upvotes: 1

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