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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> If I have this in the head of a HTA
> 
> <HTA:APPLICATION
>    id="test"
>    applicationname="Test"
>    icon="content/scripts/test.ico"
>    border="thick"
>    borderStyle="normal"
>    caption="yes"
>    contextMenu="no"
>    navigable="yes"
>    scroll="yes"
>    selection="no"
>    showInTaskbar="yes"
>    singleInstance="yes"
>    windowState="normal">
> 
> How do I get the value of 'scroll'?
> 
> I tried
> document.getElementsByTagName("HTA")

This cannot work.  `HTA' is the namespace prefix, not the element type name.  
Please get a minimum clue.

> and document.getElementsByTagName("HTA:APPLICATION")
> 
> but both return 0 elements.

Tough luck.

document.getElementsByTagName("APPLICATION") should work as it also works in 
MSXML.
 
> The answer appears to be, in my case,
> 
> document.getElementsByTagName("head")
[0].getElementsByTagName("APPLICATION")[0].scroll

Why oh why on Earth are you asking, then?

RTFM: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536476(VS.85).aspx>


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