On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Peter Brunone wrote: > > That's probably because "mydata" is the element's name > attribute. The tag name is "INPUT". > > Cheers, > > var nameArray = document.getElementsByTagName('mydata'); Peter, Thanks, so what you are saying is that Triche's solution isn't going to work. So I am left with my original question. > If I have a form element like > <input type="text" name="mydata"> > Is there a way to select it in a similar manner to getElementById()? Terry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20061004/3e6bffdb/attachment.htm>