[Javascript] Dollar function for name=

[Terry Riegel]

I think my post may have been a bit premature, as a bit of googling found document.getElementsByName() which returns  all elements with that name. In most of my work name="" are unique in the same way id="" is unique, so for me this function may be all I need...

function $name(n){
 if (typeof n == 'object') {
  return n;
 } else {
  return document.getElementsByName(n)[0];
 }
}



Terry


On Jun 1, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Terry Riegel wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> Is there a method for finding a name="whatever" on a page similar to document.getElementById('whatever')?
> 
> For example suppose I have this form...
> 
> 
> <form action="go.html" method="post">
> <input type="text" name="myname">
> <input type="text" name="mypass">
> <input type="submit" name="mysubmit" value="Login">
> </form>
> 
> 
> I would like to target name="myname" in a similar way that I can with getElementById()
> 
> Even if it takes a fair bit of code to do it it would be nice to have a 'dollar' type function for this.
> 
> When I use the term dollar function I am referring to the fairly ubiquitous convenience function for getElementById() found in the popular javascript library prototype.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry Riegel
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