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Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> danca (Daniele Campagna) wrote:
>> I wrote this small recursive function to find a node (having a name) in
>> a DOM element:
>> 
>> //usage: nodeFind (element to inspect (object), f.e. a form, name of the
>> element to search for, 3rd parameter empty at first call)
>> 
>> function nodeFind(el,n,retval){
>>   if (el.name==n) {
>>   return (el)
>>   }else{

Unnecessary “else” block.  (You *really* want to start using a decent IDE 
with semantic validation.)

>> […]
>> }
> 
> document.forms[…].elements[…] and getElementsByTagName(…) exist.

I mean getElementsByName(…), of course.

> You do not need that function even for Netscape Navigator 2 (the fact 
> aside that it would not work there as it is).

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Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 09:59 +0200
  Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-15 11:59 +0200
    Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-15 12:03 +0200
    Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-15 13:36 +0200
      Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-19 12:27 +0200
        Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-19 12:34 +0200
        Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-21 12:08 +0200
          Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-25 14:11 +0200
            Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-25 21:22 +0200
              Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-27 16:12 +0200
    Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-08-08 04:50 +0200
      Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-08 09:33 +0200
        Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-08-12 00:48 +0200
          Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-12 01:18 +0200
            Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-08-13 23:26 +0200
              Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-16 08:48 +0200
                Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-08-20 02:11 +0200
  Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-07-18 15:59 -0700
    Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-21 12:30 +0200
      Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-21 13:53 +0200
        Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-21 14:51 +0200
          Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-07-21 16:05 +0200
            Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-07-21 20:35 +0200
            Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 22:10 -0700
              Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-08-06 10:07 +0200
                Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-06 20:15 +0200
                Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-08-08 01:21 +0200
        Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 22:09 -0700
  Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2015-07-29 03:04 +0000
    Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM "danca (Daniele Campagna)" <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2015-08-06 10:20 +0200

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