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Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ?

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Using getElementsByName on a DIV ?
Date 2016-04-25 20:10 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <8760v5a4ic.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> writes:

> Stefan,
>
>>   div.getElementsByTagName( "img" ) // untested
>
> Well, I used the result of "parentNode" (instead of "div"), and that
> certainly didn't work for me.
>
>>   »getElementsByTagName« belongs to the interfaces
>> »Document« and »Element«. See www.w3.org/TR/dom/.
>
> That document is less than six months old.  I would like to use something
> that works on a bit more than just the very latest of browsers if you don't
> mind.

getElementsByTagName is one of the oldest methods.  It's specified in
the first version of the DOM (about 1998).  If it did not work, it's not
for being the new boy in town.

Can you say more than just that it didn't work for you?

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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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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