array elements getElementById

arvanhalleorg,

Since a tag's id should be unique on that page getElementById just returns that tag.  It would not work in this case and your page may have other issues with duplicating ids.  I recommend that you look at getElementsByTagName.  That will return a "collection" that you could loop through to find the exact ones you want or, if they are the only ones with that tag, then it will not need the loop.

Let me know if you have any questions or need more information.  If you need more details then please provide the relevant code you are using.

b0lsc0tt

The method getElementById() will return only the First element with that id.
But what is the problem to get first the collection of all elements with the given name?

var elemColl = document.frmName.eleName;

Then is the twentyfirst element accessed like this:

elemColl[21].value = "some value";

You might also consider using

  var tables = document.getElementsByTagName( 'table' );

This will be a collection (array) of references to every table on your page, the first of which could be manipulated using something like:

  var table = tables[ 0 ];

Now that you have a reference to a particular table, you can locate the individual 'tr' elements in that table using:

  var rows = table.getElementsByTagName( 'tr' );

Since the method was executed using the specific "table" reference, the result will be a collection of the row references,
but only for this specific table.

well i wanted to use document.form.element.yadayada but can I do this without the document.form part? I refuse to put a form on my page cause frankly i'm not going to submit the thing, it's only the javascript that is taking the data and using xmlHttp.Send to get the asp to make the changes in the background. I was wanting to use getElementById for that reason, cause it doesnt ask me for the form.

So, does the following work?

HR[#].value;

or do I absolutely have to use the full syntax?

Sweet! That's perfect. :D Thank you!