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[emrysk]

I'm trying to do something rather simple. I want to find the only
<form> inside of a <div> named "newreplyform". Here's my code:

var nrf = document.getElementById('newreplyform');
var form = nrf.getElementsByTag("form")[0];

But Firefox gives me an error: Error: nrf.getElementsByTag is not a
function

I'm a Python fanboy, and am just trying to get through some JavaScript
code as quickly as possible. Am I doing something completely misguided?

[Richard Cornford]

em****@gmail.com wrote:

I'm trying to do something rather simple. I want to
find the only <form> inside of a <div> named
"newreplyform". Here's my code:

var nrf = document.getElementById('newreplyform');
var form = nrf.getElementsByTag("form")[0];

But Firefox gives me an error: Error: nrf.getElementsByTag
is not a function
It isn't. The method in question is called 'getElementsByTagName'.
I'm a Python fanboy, and am just trying to get through some
JavaScript code as quickly as possible. Am I doing something
completely misguided?

I bet Pythod doesn't let you use function/method names that are just
approximations or the real name so expecting to be able to do so in
javascript seems optimistic.

Richard.

[emrysk]

*grin* Thanks, Richard. For letting me abuse your time.