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pitchoo · 06-19-2003, 03:40 PM

not exactly...

I want to get an element by its id (not its tag name) and then perform a getElementsByName on it.

For example if I have this HTML code:

<td>
... some HTML code ...
</td>
<td id="myid">
<div name="aname">...</div>
<div name="aname">...</div>
<div name="aname">...</div>
</td>
<td>
... some HTML code ...
</td>

Instead of using document.getElementsByName("aname") which is traversing the whole HTML document, I'd like to perform a getElementsByName only in the HTML block contained in the column with id="myid"...

06-19-2003, 03:40 PM	PM User \| #6
pitchoo New Coder Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 27 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	not exactly... I want to get an element by its id (not its tag name) and then perform a getElementsByName on it. For example if I have this HTML code: <td> ... some HTML code ... </td> <td id="myid"> <div name="aname">...</div> <div name="aname">...</div> <div name="aname">...</div> </td> <td> ... some HTML code ... </td> Instead of using document.getElementsByName("aname") which is traversing the whole HTML document, I'd like to perform a getElementsByName only in the HTML block contained in the column with id="myid"...