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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 23:07 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87zish8hqk.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> writes:

>> If it did not work, it's not for being the new boy in town.
>
> Thats what I thought too, but that document made me doubt it ...
>
>> Can you say more than just that it didn't work for you?
>
> Well.   The FF Javascript Console told me that "Ancestor.getElementsByName
> is not a function" (the "Ancestor" variable contains a "parentNode"
> result).

Stefan has explained the basic issue (using getElementsByName instead of
getElementsByTagName) but you might be curious at to why you get this
error.  getElementsByName is not a method of elements but only of
documents.

<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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