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getElementsByTagName

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Returns a list of elements of a given name in the document.

Syntax

elements = document.getElementsByTagName(Name)
 

Parameters

elements is a nodeList of elements.

tagName is a string representing the name of the elements.

Example

// check the alignment on a number of tables tables = document.getElementsByTagName("table"); dump("no. of tables: " + tables.length); for (var i = 0; i < tables.length; i++) {    dump(tables[i].alignment); }

Notes

Another very useful feature of DOM programming is the getElementsByTagName() method, which returns a nodeList of all the elements with the given name.

Specification

getElementsByTagName