document.getElementsByName problem

simon · May 9, 2005

<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

simon · May 9, 2005

Thank you for your answer.

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

Thanks,
Simon

Patrice · May 9, 2005

Try around :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/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

Eliyahu Goldin · May 9, 2005

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

Bruce Barker · May 9, 2005

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 · May 10, 2005

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

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