How to access an element inside innerHTML of a HTMLDivElement?

[ssnaik84]

Hello,

I have a HTMLDivElement. I checked its innerHTML property.
It has a hidden element (in innerHTML).

How I can access the hidden element?

For example, fbPartnerName is the HTMLDivElement

var fbPartnerName = document.getElementById("fbPartnerName");
alert(fbPartnerName.innerHTML);
 

it shows...

<input value="Talon Business Support Ltd - UK" name="fbPartnerName" id="fbPartnerName_hidden" type="hidden">
<input active="false" pq="T" style="width: 420px;" class="ffb-input" autocomplete="off" id="fbPartnerName_input">
<div class="ffb" style="top: 0px; left: 0px; display: none;" id="fbPartnerName_ctr">
 

I want to access getElementById("fbPartnerName_hidden")
I tried ...
document.getElementById("fbPartnerName_hidden")

but it's not working..
Please guide me..

Thanks,
Swapnil

[RamananKalirajan]

You can easily access that particular element

var fbPartnerName = document.getElementById("fbPartnerName_hidden");

The fbPartnerName will have the div object using that u can get in two ways...

way 1

fbPartnerName.getElementById('fbPartnerName_hidden')

way2

var objArray =  fbPartnerName.getElementsByTagName("input");
for(var i=0;i<=objArray.length;i++)
{
   if(objArray[i].type=="hidden")
   {
         var hiddenObj = objArra[i];
   }
}

Way 3:
If you have an id for that particular hidden variable. You can directly access
by

var hidObj = document.getElementById('fbPartnerName_hidden')

Thanks and Regards
Ramanan Kalirajan

[Dormilich]

fbPartnerName.getElementById('fbPartnerName_hidden')

won’t work. getElementById() is only defined for the document interface.

[RamananKalirajan]

@ Dormilich:
can't we use getElementById() for other objects other than document?

Thanks and Regards
Ramanan Kalirajan

[Dormilich]

can't we use getElementById() for other objects other than document?

why? doesn’t make sense to use it for anything else than document.

PS. getElementsByTagName() (and the other getElementsBy* methods) do not return an array, but a NodeList/HTMLCollection.

[Dormilich]

@ssnaik84

I had no problems with getElementById()

[ssnaik84]

Thanks friends
I resolved the problem... I refered HTMLDivElement document