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Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ?

From Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ?
Date 2016-04-25 23:41 +0200
Organization albasani.net
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R.Wieser wrote:
> Now I think of it, I've got pretty-much the same question in regard to
> finding an "ancestor" element:  I've written some code which moves up the
> DOM tree until it finds the sought for element, but maybe there is a
> simpler, single command available for that too.

Since this part of your question hasn't been addressed yet: a manual loop,
moving up the tree and checking each ancestor separately, is the best
solution in your case. There is a new(ish) and very convenient method that
can directly find the closest ancestor matching a given query selector, but
it's not well supported yet:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/closest
https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-element-closest


- stefan

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Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-25 19:37 +0200
  Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-25 20:57 +0200
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-25 20:10 +0100
      Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-25 21:42 +0200
        Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-25 23:07 +0100
          Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 09:32 +0200
            Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-26 11:28 +0100
              Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 14:52 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-26 14:40 +0100
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 18:37 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-04-26 19:12 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 20:44 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-04-26 19:17 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-04-26 19:56 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 22:11 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-26 19:40 +0100
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 21:43 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-27 00:14 +0100
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-27 11:05 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-04-28 01:10 +0100
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-05-05 00:46 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2016-05-06 12:56 +0200
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-05-06 05:14 -0700
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2016-05-05 14:36 +0100
                Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 20:38 +0200
        Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 08:57 +0200
  Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 23:41 +0200
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 08:59 +0200
  Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-04-26 19:03 +0700
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-26 14:56 +0200
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-04-26 20:13 +0200
      Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-04-26 20:19 +0200
  Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? Dr J R Stockton <reply1600@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-04-26 23:30 +0100
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2016-04-27 09:29 +0200
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-04-27 10:34 +0200
    Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2016-05-04 19:04 -0700

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