Stripe not working with error ‘Uncaught (in promise) Error: We could not retrieve data from the specified Element.’

Please try this. It works.

<html>
    <head>
        <style>
            /**
            * The CSS shown here will not be introduced in the Quickstart guide, but shows
            * how you can use CSS to style your Element's container.
            */
            .StripeElement {
            box-sizing: border-box;

            height: 40px;

            padding: 10px 12px;

            border: 1px solid transparent;
            border-radius: 4px;
            background-color: white;

            box-shadow: 0 1px 3px 0 #e6ebf1;
            -webkit-transition: box-shadow 150ms ease;
            transition: box-shadow 150ms ease;
            }

            .StripeElement--focus {
            box-shadow: 0 1px 3px 0 #cfd7df;
            }

            .StripeElement--invalid {
            border-color: #fa755a;
            }

            .StripeElement--webkit-autofill {
            background-color: #fefde5 !important;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <script src="https://js.stripe.com/v3/"></script>

        <form action="/charge" method="post" id="payment-form">
            <div class="form-row">
            <label for="card-element">
                Credit or debit card
            </label>
            <div id="card-element">
                <!-- A Stripe Element will be inserted here. -->
            </div>
        
            <!-- Used to display form errors. -->
            <div id="card-errors" role="alert"></div>
            </div>
        
            <button>Submit Payment</button>
        </form>
            
        <script>
            // Create a Stripe client.
            var stripe = Stripe('pk_test_XzLQCcuHS0Qc5xPIARiG8aNU');

            // Create an instance of Elements.
            var elements = stripe.elements();

            // Custom styling can be passed to options when creating an Element.
            // (Note that this demo uses a wider set of styles than the guide below.)
            var style = {
                base: {
                    color: '#32325d',
                    fontFamily: '"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif',
                    fontSmoothing: 'antialiased',
                    fontSize: '16px',
                    '::placeholder': {
                    color: '#aab7c4'
                    }
                },
                invalid: {
                    color: '#fa755a',
                    iconColor: '#fa755a'
                }
            };

            // Create an instance of the card Element.
            var card = elements.create('card', {style: style});

            // Add an instance of the card Element into the `card-element` <div>.
            card.mount('#card-element');

            // Handle real-time validation errors from the card Element.
            card.addEventListener('change', function(event) {
                var displayError = document.getElementById('card-errors');
                if (event.error) {
                    displayError.textContent = event.error.message;
                } else {
                    displayError.textContent="";
                }
            });

            // Handle form submission.
            var form = document.getElementById('payment-form');
            form.addEventListener('submit', function(event) {
                event.preventDefault();

                stripe.createToken(card).then(function(result) {
                    if (result.error) {
                    // Inform the user if there was an error.
                    var errorElement = document.getElementById('card-errors');
                    errorElement.textContent = result.error.message;
                    } else {
                    // Send the token to your server.
                    stripeTokenHandler(result.token);
                    }
                });
            });

            // Submit the form with the token ID.
            function stripeTokenHandler(token) {
                // Insert the token ID into the form so it gets submitted to the server
                // var form = document.getElementById('payment-form');
                // var hiddenInput = document.createElement('input');
                // hiddenInput.setAttribute('type', 'text');
                // hiddenInput.setAttribute('name', 'stripeToken');
                // hiddenInput.setAttribute('value', token.id);
                // form.appendChild(hiddenInput);
                alert('Success! Got token: ' + token.id);

                // Submit the form
                // form.submit();
            }
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

Note that both the fix and the cause is the call:

stripe.createToken(card)

I mean, this happens if we try to submit with wrong create prefixed method, and while for above createToken works, it may not for other stripe-elements and/or API configurations.

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