[Javascript] Dollar function for name=

[Rees, Mark]

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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There is in prototype. See the docs, always a good starting point

http://api.prototypejs.org/language/dollardollar/

And use the CSS3 attribute selectors

http://www.css3.info/preview/attribute-selectors/

Obviously, the double dollar method returns an array of Elements rather than an Element, as attribute name/value pairs are not guaranteed to be unique. IDs of course are unique (in a valid document anyway)

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