document.getElementsByName problem

simon

<html>
<head>
<script language="vbscript">
sub window_onload
msgbox document.getElementsByName("name1").length
end sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div name="name1">testDiv</div>
<table id="tbl1" name="name1"><tr><td>table1</td></tr></table>
<table id="tbl2"
name="name1"><tbody><tr><td>table2</td></tr></tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

Why document.getElementsByName("name1") returns always 0 ? I have 3 elements
with name property="name1"

Does anybody know the answer?

Is there any other way to join this 3 elements?

I have about 1000 table elements on the page and I don't want to use
function document.getElementsByTagName.

Thank you,
Simon

Nov 19 '05 #1

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Eliyahu Goldin

Simon,

Could be the elements are not parsed by the browser yet when window's onload
event fires. Just for testing, make an onclick event for any of the elements
and produce the messagebox there.

Eliyahu

"simon" <si*********@stud-moderna.si> wrote in message
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<html>
<head>
<script language="vbscript">
sub window_onload
msgbox document.getElementsByName("name1").length
end sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div name="name1">testDiv</div>
<table id="tbl1" name="name1"><tr><td>table1</td></tr></table>
<table id="tbl2"
name="name1"><tbody><tr><td>table2</td></tr></tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

Why document.getElementsByName("name1") returns always 0 ? I have 3 elements with name property="name1"

Does anybody know the answer?

Is there any other way to join this 3 elements?

I have about 1000 table elements on the page and I don't want to use
function document.getElementsByTagName.

Thank you,
Simon

Nov 19 '05 #2

simon

Thank you for your answer.

Even if I execute the msgbox with click event, still the same problem

Thanks,
Simon

"Eliyahu Goldin" <re*************@monarchmed.com> wrote in message
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Simon,

Could be the elements are not parsed by the browser yet when window's
onload
event fires. Just for testing, make an onclick event for any of the
elements
and produce the messagebox there.

Eliyahu

"simon" <si*********@stud-moderna.si> wrote in message
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<html>
<head>
<script language="vbscript">
sub window_onload
msgbox document.getElementsByName("name1").length
end sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div name="name1">testDiv</div>
<table id="tbl1" name="name1"><tr><td>table1</td></tr></table>
<table id="tbl2"
name="name1"><tbody><tr><td>table2</td></tr></tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

Why document.getElementsByName("name1") returns always 0 ? I have 3

elements
with name property="name1"

Does anybody know the answer?

Is there any other way to join this 3 elements?

I have about 1000 table elements on the page and I don't want to use
function document.getElementsByTagName.

Thank you,
Simon

Nov 19 '05 #3

Patrice

Try around :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a...ies/name_2.asp

It looks like the name attribute doesn't exists for the TABLE tag. It would
make here "name" a custom attribute ignored by getElementsByName...
Patrice

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<html>
<head>
<script language="vbscript">
sub window_onload
msgbox document.getElementsByName("name1").length
end sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div name="name1">testDiv</div>
<table id="tbl1" name="name1"><tr><td>table1</td></tr></table>
<table id="tbl2"
name="name1"><tbody><tr><td>table2</td></tr></tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

Why document.getElementsByName("name1") returns always 0 ? I have 3 elements with name property="name1"

Does anybody know the answer?

Is there any other way to join this 3 elements?

I have about 1000 table elements on the page and I don't want to use
function document.getElementsByTagName.

Thank you,
Simon

Nov 19 '05 #4

Bruce Barker

getElementsByName only works for form elements (<input>,<select>, and
<textarea>). to access any html element use getElementById

<html>
<head>
<script language="vbscript">
sub window_onload
msgbox document.getElementByName("name1").innerHTML
end sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="name1">testDiv</div>
<table id="tbl1" name="name1"><tr><td>table1</td></tr></table>
<table id="tbl2"
name="name1"><tbody><tr><td>table2</td></tr></tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

"simon" <si*********@stud-moderna.si> wrote in message
news:eD**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

<html>
<head>
<script language="vbscript">
sub window_onload
msgbox document.getElementsByName("name1").length
end sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div name="name1">testDiv</div>
<table id="tbl1" name="name1"><tr><td>table1</td></tr></table>
<table id="tbl2"
name="name1"><tbody><tr><td>table2</td></tr></tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

Why document.getElementsByName("name1") returns always 0 ? I have 3
elements with name property="name1"

Does anybody know the answer?

Is there any other way to join this 3 elements?

I have about 1000 table elements on the page and I don't want to use
function document.getElementsByTagName.

Thank you,
Simon

Nov 19 '05 #5

simon

Hi,

thank you for your answers.
Is there some other way to get the array of tables if getElementsByName
doesn't work for tables?

regards,
Simon

"Bruce Barker" <br******************@safeco.com> wrote in message
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getElementsByName only works for form elements (<input>,<select>, and
<textarea>). to access any html element use getElementById

<html>
<head>
<script language="vbscript">
sub window_onload
msgbox document.getElementByName("name1").innerHTML
end sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="name1">testDiv</div>
<table id="tbl1" name="name1"><tr><td>table1</td></tr></table>
<table id="tbl2"
name="name1"><tbody><tr><td>table2</td></tr></tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

"simon" <si*********@stud-moderna.si> wrote in message
news:eD**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
<html>
<head>
<script language="vbscript">
sub window_onload
msgbox document.getElementsByName("name1").length
end sub
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div name="name1">testDiv</div>
<table id="tbl1" name="name1"><tr><td>table1</td></tr></table>
<table id="tbl2"
name="name1"><tbody><tr><td>table2</td></tr></tbody></table>
</body>
</html>

Why document.getElementsByName("name1") returns always 0 ? I have 3
elements with name property="name1"

Does anybody know the answer?

Is there any other way to join this 3 elements?

I have about 1000 table elements on the page and I don't want to use
function document.getElementsByTagName.

Thank you,
Simon

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