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Subject: 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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