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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ?
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:28:55 +0100
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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> writes:

>> getElementsByName is not a method of elements but
>> only of documents.
>
> Yes, thats what I concluded too (but as a novice in this regard wanted
> to verify it), and why I asked if there was another command that would
> indeed work for elements.
>
> Hmmm ...  It looks that the only "document.getElementsBy*" command that
> wishes to work *at all* on the browser I'm using for testing is the
> "TagName" one ... Bummer.

Well you should also have getElementsByTagNameNS but that's a
technicality.  However, you might still be confusing document
methods with element methods since you originally asked about looking
inside a div (which will be modelled as an element) and here you are
taking about document.getElementsBy* methods.

There does not seem to be anything odd about what you are trying to do,
so I'm a bit lost as to why you can't find what you need.  What is the
high-level task you are trying to achieve?

<snip>
-- 
Ben.