getElemntsByTagName in IE 5.x

[wutnickel webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi! Does anybody know if IE 5 and 5.5 have Problems with "getElemntsByTagName"?

I have this line in my parent-document:

Header.document.getElementsByName("header_text")[0].attributes.value.value=Content.document.getElemen tsByTagName("form")[0].attributes.name.value;

I want to get the value of the name in another document:

<form action="" name="xyz">

It works under IE 6 but doesn't under IE5; IE5.5 and OPERA.

Please help me!

Thanks in advance, Alex

[Dan-CFTagStore.com]

Hi,

You have 2 values in the snippet below:

".....attributes.value.value=Content.document..... ......"

also, try using getAttribute function instead of referring to the attributes collection.

You can also just say:

content.document.forms(0).name

AFAIK, getElementByTagName requires CAPITALS, so:

getElementsByTagName("form") becomes getElementsByTagName("FORM")

but because its a form object, you dont need to pull it out of the DOM using getElementsByTagName

I personally always use getElementById and assign an ID to any element.

Hope that helps,

Regards,
Dan.

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[wutnickel webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Thank you! I also use ID now. This works! Another problem form IE5.x to IE6 was that I always used:

..attributes.xyz.value

Now I changed everytinh to just: .xyz

Now bot IE 6 and 5.x can interpret it!

Thanks so far, Alex