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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript
Subject: Re: Retrieve a select from a table cell
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 14:45:18 +0200
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danca (Daniele Campagna) wrote:

> Hi all, I'm trying to retrieve the value of a <select> in a table cell.
> However, I noticed a different behaviour if i create the element via
> HTML or if I create it via createElement() and then appendChild()

Well, remove all whitespace between the tags in the HTML version, and
most likely you get the same behavior.

> Now I put an onclick() on cells just to see the firstChild element of
> the TD in the cell:

Node.firstChild does not necessarily yield the the first child *element*
of the node.  If you want to get that, use ParentNode.firstElementChild
(you may want to write a wrapper/fallback in case the method is not
supported).

Alternatively, you can retrieve all select elements with
Element.getElementsByTagName("select").

-- 
Christoph M. Becker