Search Page For String Within ElementId

I need javascript code that will search through a particular elementid and then search for a string value within the text.

Here is an example of the page content:

<td id=attribute>Hair:</td><td id=style>Blonde</td>
<td id=attribute>Eyes:</td><td id=style>Brown</td>
<td id=attribute>Ht:</td><td id=style>4'11"</td>
<td id=attribute>Wt:</td><td id=style>130</td>

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Here was my failed attempt:

var isBlonde = false;
		var body = gwndTarget.document.getElementById('style');
		for (var i=0; i<body.length; i++) {
  		if (body[i].indexOf("Blonde") > -1){
  			isBlonde = true;
  			alert(1);
  		}
		}

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deharvy

8/22/2022 - Mon

jordanrynard

5/15/2011

Would you consider using a framework like jQuery for your javascript operations?
It'd make your code much less bulky, if you plan on doing alot of tasks such as this.
Let me know, otherwise I can post a plain javascript answer.

Also, id's must be unique, so you can only use one instance of an individual id name (any attempt at javascript on your html would fail for this reason).
For classification of elements of the same name, use the class attribute instead of id:
For example:

<td class=attribute>Hair:</td><td class=style>Blonde</td>
<td class=attribute>Eyes:</td><td class=style>Brown</td>
<td class=attribute>Ht:</td><td class=style>4'11"</td>
<td class=attribute>Wt:</td><td class=style>130</td>

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deharvy

5/15/2011

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jordanrynard,

I'm not in charge of the source code, just trying to code a page that reads the data. In this case, I need to use javascript.

What if I ignore the element ids and just search the entire page for string values such as ">Blonde<"?

Is that possible?

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deharvy

5/15/2011

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gurvinder372,

This only grabs the value of the first elementId; which goes back to what jordanrynard was saying about the elementids being unique.

In the event that I can't get unique values, is there an alternate solution?

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deharvy

5/15/2011

ASKER

Works like a charm. Thanks!