What Happened to getElementsByTagName in ASP.NET 2.0 Javascript?

[Guest]

I am writing an application using VS2005 and I am using javascript on the
client side. I have a table that contains textboxes and I want to set the
contents of all of them to the empty string in javascript. I cannot permit a
postback in this scenario. I want to find the textboxes by using:

var txtBoxes = document.getElementsByTagName("input");

I can then iterate the array and set the value for all inputs of type text
to the empty string. However, I find the getElementsByTagName function is
not there.

What happened to it? What's a good alternative to resolve this?

 

[Mark Rae]

What happened to it?

JavaScript is entirely independent of ASP.NET - all ASP.NET can do with it
is stream it down to the browser...

Presumably, all your other JavaScript works...?

Also, there is at least one reported bug with getElementsByTagName in IE7,
so you might have found another one...
http://ejohn.org/blog/object-getelementsbytagname-ie7-bug/

 

[Guest]

I understand this. But getElementsByTagName does not even show up in
Intellisense. Also I get a method not supported error on
document.getElementsByTagName. I am running IE7 so I guess it is not there.

 

[Mark Rae]

I understand this. But getElementsByTagName does not even show up in
Intellisense. Also I get a method not supported error on
document.getElementsByTagName.

Curious - I've just tried it, and the line belows working fine for me...

var aobjInput = document.getElementsByTagName('input');

I am running IE7 so I guess it is not there.

Me too.

Do all the other DOM-related JavaScript methods work...?