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Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName()

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In comp.lang.javascript message <b1pkhiFc1amU1@mid.individual.net>, Tue,
11 Jun 2013 15:52:47, Mel Smith <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> posted:

>Hi:
>
>    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 ?

You can easily enough walk the whole DOM tree checking every element for
any desired combination of whatever.

That scheme will allow you to make progress without delay, which is
useful even if it is later superseded by something more elegant.


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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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