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Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ?

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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> writes:

> Ben,
>
>> However, you might still be confusing document methods
>> with element methods
>
> Possibly.    I do not really see a difference between a "document" and an
> "element", as I consider the former to be the top element/node of the
> element/node tree.

They are different types.  That is why they have different methods.

>> What is the high-level task you are trying to achieve?
>
> The only reason you would want to know that is to try to find another
> approach to what I'm trying to do (a work-around).   Which is not what I'm
> looking for.

But you need to say enough that people know how to offer help.  All I
know right now is that you want to fond an img in a div.  There's
usually no problem in doing that, so I'm not stuck about how you offer
any more help.

> All I currently want is to figure out if there is a simple way to find a
> descendant of a certain element, and as that seems to be quite possible
> figure out why I can't get it to work.

Yes, I'd like to figure that out too but I have no data to go on.  If
you posted an example document with the code that does work, it would
help a lot.

> If I do not solve it now I will just run into it again at some later date.
> :-\
>
> Reminder: I already wrote some code to do what I want (even rewrote it this
> morning to return all matching elements, not only the first).   But using
> that code when there is an build-in method available is not really what I
> would like to do.

Without knowing what you want, it's impossible to say.  But it's
unlikely that what you want is so general that one of the built-in
methods will do the job.  You can find elements by tag, by name, by id
and by class.  With newer browsers you can use more complex selections
(as posted about elsewhere in the thread), but that's it.  If what you
want is not any of these rather general tasks, then you'll have to write
more code than a single method call.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-25 19:37 +0200
  Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-25 20:57 +0200
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-25 20:10 +0100
      Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-25 21:42 +0200
        Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-25 23:07 +0100
          Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 09:32 +0200
            Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-26 11:28 +0100
              Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 14:52 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-26 14:40 +0100
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 18:37 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-04-26 19:12 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 20:44 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-04-26 19:17 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 19:56 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 22:11 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-26 19:40 +0100
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 21:43 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-27 00:14 +0100
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-27 11:05 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-28 01:10 +0100
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-05-05 00:46 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-05-06 12:56 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-05-06 05:14 -0700
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-05-05 14:36 +0100
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 20:38 +0200
        Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 08:57 +0200
  Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 23:41 +0200
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 08:59 +0200
  Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-04-26 19:03 +0700
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 14:56 +0200
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-04-26 20:13 +0200
      Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-04-26 20:19 +0200
  Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Dr J R Stockton <reply1600@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-04-26 23:30 +0100
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-27 09:29 +0200
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-04-27 10:34 +0200
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-05-04 19:04 -0700

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