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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Prob with IE8 and getElementsByName()
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:37:30 -0600
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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