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Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName()

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"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote in message 
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> 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).
>
> 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.

Hi Andrew & Martin:

    Altho, I have four other tables on my page, I now have another and last 
(up to) 7-row table (with 6 columns) I wish to populate from an Ajax 
response.

    I was going to use the the 'name=' clause on the <td> elements of this 
short table to tell me which column I was going to fill from the AJAX 
responsetext.

    This is working perfectly with FF and with Chrome -- but , with IE8, the 
statement:

          amarkers =  document.getElementsByName("markers"),
          aratings =  document.getElementsByName("ratings"),
          (etcetera ... for 6 columns)

           but,  the value of amarkers.length --> 0 when it should be from 1 
thru approx 7 (rows, that is)

   Then, I use the objects in the arrays (e.g., amarkers) to populate the 
table from my Ajax response.

   I guess I *could* use document.getElementsByTagName("td"), but then I'd 
have up to 7000 <td> elements to run thru ...

    I guess I'll 'plant' id="xxxxxx" each each of my 40 or so <td> elements 
instead.

Thanks for the response.

-Mel

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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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