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finding an element on a page

hey all,
i know theres GetElementByID but is there a way to find an element by seeing
if just part of the id contains a certain string value?

thanks,
rodchar
Oct 11 '07 #1
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i know theres GetElementByID but is there a way to find an element by
seeing
if just part of the id contains a certain string value?
Are we talking javascript here?

-Darrel
Oct 11 '07 #2
yes.

"darrel" wrote:
i know theres GetElementByID but is there a way to find an element by
seeing
if just part of the id contains a certain string value?

Are we talking javascript here?

-Darrel
Oct 11 '07 #3
thank you for this cool tip.

That is a decent method. However, you might want to consider a
'getElementByClassName' function, in which case you could then 'tag' every
element with a class name and not have to deal with parsing the string.

-Darrel
Oct 11 '07 #4
thank you again.

"darrel" wrote:
thank you for this cool tip.

That is a decent method. However, you might want to consider a
'getElementByClassName' function, in which case you could then 'tag' every
element with a class name and not have to deal with parsing the string.

-Darrel
Oct 12 '07 #5

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