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Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName()

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Martin Honnen wrote:

> Mel Smith wrote:
>>      Using IE8 and the method document.getElementsByName("somename")
>>      works correctly for <input> elements with a 'name'
>>
>>      However, it fails to produce an array of objects for <td> elements.
>>
>>      Is there a workaround for this please ?
> 
> Neither HTML 4 nor HTML5 define a "name" attribute on "td" elements I
> think (while of course form controls like "input" elements have such an
> attribute).

You are correct (I happen to have the sections on screen for further 
improvement of the ES Matrix):

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/tables.html#h-11.2.6>
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/tabular-data.html#the-td-element>
 
> So what do you want to achieve? If you want to group some "td" elements
> other than by putting them into "tr" elements in the same "tbody" then
> use the "class" attribute. In that case getElementsByClassName should
> help, although for IE 8 you will need to implement it or use
> querySelectorAll.

In HTML5 there is also the possibility of microdata –

  data-name="foo"

– but it is probably overkill here.

<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/dom.html#embedding-custom-non-visible-data-with-the-data-*-attributes>

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Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-11 15:52 -0600
  Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-06-12 11:01 +1000
  Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2013-06-12 14:11 +0200
    Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-12 16:33 +0200
    Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-12 08:37 -0600
      Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2013-06-13 08:36 +1000
        Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-12 16:59 -0600
      Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-06-13 09:30 +0000
        Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-13 13:12 +0200
        Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-13 08:41 -0600
          Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2013-06-13 14:12 -0600
            Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-06-13 23:43 +0200
              Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-06-13 23:19 +0100
                Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2013-06-14 00:34 +0200
                Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-06-14 10:17 +0200
    Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2013-06-13 08:24 +0300
  Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName() Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-06-12 19:01 +0100

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