[thelist] Can you create tags in xhtml?

[Leif Singer]

> However, I can't think of any reliable method of getting a pointer to 
> the collection of divs whose class is editWidgets (from a .js file).
You might want to take a look at the source of 
http://www.andreas-waidelich.de/content/labor/getElementsByClassName.html

> So, I thought that barring a solution to that problem, I could simply 
> create my own tag to substitute for the div element and do a 
> getElementsByTagname on that element. This is in the body of an xhtml 
> strict doctype.
The doctype defines the tags, so no, there is no way to have your own 
tags im xhtml.

Best regards

Leif Singer