25.152. HTMLDocument.getElementsByName( ): find elements with the specified name attributeDOM Level 2 HTML25.152.1. SynopsisElement[] getElementsByName(String elementName); 25.152.1.1. Arguments
25.152.1.2. ReturnsA read-only array (technically a NodeList) of Element objects that have a name attribute with the specified value. If no such elements are found, the returned array is empty and has a length of 0. 25.152.2. DescriptionThis method searches an HTML document tree for Element nodes that have a name attribute of the specified value and returns a NodeList (which you can treat as a read-only array) containing all matching elements. If there are no matching elements, a NodeList with length 0 is returned. Do not confuse this method with the Document.getElementById( ) method, which finds a single Element based on the unique value of an id attribute, or with the Document.getElementsByTagName( ) method, which returns a NodeList of elements with the specified tag name. 25.152.3. See AlsoDocument.getElementById( ), Document.getElementsByTagName( ) |