for(element in document.all) in firefox

[musicales]

anyone know how to do the firefox equivalent of this :

for(element in document.all)
{
}

I'm trying to loop through all the ids in a document.
Thanks for any help.

[Bernard Marx]

1) You don't need to use document.all for V5 browsers,
use

document.getElementsByTagName('*')

Having said that, some versions of IE5 return a zro-length collection when

'*'

is used as an argument. So...

/* change corrupted ¦¦ chars for pipes */

var all = document.all [b][red]¦¦[/red][/b] document.getElementsByTagName('*');

That's the simplest way to ensure that you have a collection of all elements held in a variable.

2) Don't use a

for..in

loop on a collection of this kind.
Inconveniently enough, a

for..in

loop will also output the

length

property of the collection, which may well cause an error (depending on what you are doing with the output).

This construction is convenient:

for(var k=0, elm; elm=all[k++];)
{
  // elm holds a reference to the element
}

[musicales]

Bernard - thanks. I had come across getElementsByTagName but couldn't find a way to get the ids from it. In your example would you expect it to be in elm or elm.id or something else?
Thanks

sorry - just worked it out - elm.id did the trick
Thanks