getting an element by part of its name

[sliad]

I have some input elements. I want to get an element by using a method like "document.getElementsByName" but I want to give this function a part of the name string of the element.
for example: I have the element by the name: "N43:flag" ,
and I want to find it using the string: "flag" .

[BlobFisk]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, sliad!

You could create an array of all elements with names and use this array to find the string you feed into the function.

You'd start of with something like this:

var allNames = new Array();
var allNames = document.getElementsByName("*");

So now you have an array (allNames) which contains all the named objects in your document.

You can then loop through all the array items:

for(1=0;a<allNames.lenght;i++)

And search for your string.

HTH

[BlobFisk]

Apologies, I've just noticed that the for loop should read:

for(i=0;a<allNames.lenght;i++)

[Bernard Marx]

Hi BlobFisk,

Actually there's a couple more typos there:

for(i=0;[blue]i[/blue]<allNames.[blue]length[/blue];i++)

This line is excess to requirements:

var allNames = new Array(); 

Firstly,

allNames

would be assigned a new value, more importantly,

getElementsByName

doesn't return an array, but a collection.