The item Method

The item Method

The item method gives you another way to access objects in a collectionyou can use this method rather than an array index. You can see the support for this method in Table 6.32.

Table 6.32. The item Method

Method	NS2	NS3	NS4	NS6	IE3a	IE3b	IE4	IE5	IE5.5	IE6
item(number [, index])				x			x	x	x	x
	Returns: Object
item(text [, index])				x			x	x	x	x
	Returns: Object

Here are two ways to access the same node:

 document.getElementById("span1").childNodes.item(5)  document.getElementById("span1").childNodes[5] 

Tip

In the Internet Explorer, you also can use an item's ID value as the array index, or to access the item with the item method.