<font face="arial" size="2">Sorry, I came in late...<br /><br /> I believe someone mentioned document.forms[formIndex].controlName if you know where the form is in the order of forms -- if not, you can always just hit each form (can't be that many) and see if it has an element named "mydata".<br /><br /> Another way would be to go ahead with getElementsByTagName and loop through the resulting array of fields, checking for each one's name and getting what you need.<br /><br /> Beyond that, no, there's not really a "name" equivalent for getElementById.<br /><br />At least I'm pretty sure of that...<br /><br />Peter<br /><br /></font>
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<b>From</b>: Terry Riegel <a href="mailto:riegel@clearimageonline.com">riegel@clearimageonline.com</a><br /></font>
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<div>On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Peter Brunone wrote:</div>
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<br /> That's probably because "mydata" is the element's name attribute. The tag name is "INPUT".<br /><br />Cheers,<br /></font>> var nameArray = document.getElementsByTagName('mydata');<br /></blockquote>
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<div>Thanks, so what you are saying is that Triche's solution isn't going to work. So I am left with my original question.</div>
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<div style="MARGIN: 0px"><input type="text" name="mydata"></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0px">Is there a way to select it in a similar manner to getElementById()?</div>
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