[Javascript] DOM navigation

Gee, David dgee at freemarkets.com
Wed Jun 2 11:51:01 CDT 2004


 document.getElementById('myDiv').getElementsByTagName("TD")[0]

That should work, and is a tad more elegant, I guess...

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Cowan [mailto:dagda1 at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 12:48 PM
To: javascript at LaTech.edu
Subject: [Javascript] DOM navigation


Hi,

I have a DIV which contains a table, which contains a row, which
contains a 
column.

<div id='myDiv'>
    <table>
         <tbody>
              <tr>
                   <td>

Is there a better way of selecting this using the DOM other than saying:

o = 
document.getElementById('myDiv')firstChild.firstChild.firstChild.firstCh
ild;

Thanks

Paul


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