[thelist] DOM - Retrieving child nodes using a compound expression

[Pavel Dudrenov]

You've misspelled getElementsByTagName
you have a "t" between Elements and Tag

On 5/12/05, raskenbo <raskenbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi List.
> 
> I'm aware that a DOM interface exists (childNodes) to achieve
> precisely what I am trying to. Unfortunately it has cross-browser
> issues.
> 
> What I want is to retrieve all of the input elements that are located
> within a specific div.
> 
> I've tried the following:
>   var inputs = document.getElementById("questiona").getElementstByTagName("input");
> 
> Here's the error message that the Firefox JavaScript console throws
> when I try the above code:
>   Error: document.getElementById("questiona").getElementstByTagName is
> not a function
> 
> I'm probably missing something obvious but I've spent too much time on
> this and would really appreciate an "extra set of eyes".
> 
> Demo (with described problem)
> http://www.kenchase.com/oca/badDOM/spamiqtest1.html
> 
> Demo (without guilty function)
> http://www.kenchase.com/oca/demo/spamiqtest1.html
> 
> JavsScript: Next() and Validator() functions
> http://www.kenchase.com/oca/badDOM/scripts/spamiqtest.js
> 
> Validator() function desciption:
> Checks a group of radio buttons and returns true if one is selected or
> false if none are selected.
> 
> TIA
> Ken Chase
> Freelance Web Design
> http://www.kenchase.com
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