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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ?
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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> writes:

>> If it did not work, it's not for being the new boy in town.
>
> Thats what I thought too, but that document made me doubt it ...
>
>> Can you say more than just that it didn't work for you?
>
> Well.   The FF Javascript Console told me that "Ancestor.getElementsByName
> is not a function" (the "Ancestor" variable contains a "parentNode"
> result).

Stefan has explained the basic issue (using getElementsByName instead of
getElementsByTagName) but you might be curious at to why you get this
error.  getElementsByName is not a method of elements but only of
documents.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.