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 _______________________________________________ Javascript mailing list Javascript at LaTech.edu https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript