The code I pasted is from prototype.js, and I didn't write the code.
There seems to be an IE8 error, when prototype.js is defining
getElementsByClassName.
I just used magento, with wowslider, and got this error. I'm not sure
where it is coming from.


On Jun 8, 8:53 pm, Jason Westbrook <jwestbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you wanting to collect all of the child elements of $(element) ?
>
> try using $(element).childElements()
>
> but actually looking at the whole code it looks like you are defining
> getElementsByClassName - there is already functionality in prototype to do
> this
>
> $$(".classname") will return a list of elements with that classname in the
> entire DOM
>
> if you need to select all elements that are children of a certain node
> $("element").select(".classname") will do that
>
> Jason Westbrook | T: 313-799-3770 | jwestbr...@gmail.com
>
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> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:51 AM, nbezzala <nbezz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am using prototype version 1.7 on IE8. It works fine on Firefox and
> > Opera.
>
> > The error is in this line
> >  var nodes = $(element).getElementsByTagName('*');
>
> > Below is the code around it.
>
> > /
> > *--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > */
>
> > if (!document.getElementsByClassName) document.getElementsByClassName
> > = function(instanceMethods){
> >  function iter(name) {
> >    return name.blank() ? null : "[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '),
> > ' " + name + " ')]";
> >  }
>
> >  instanceMethods.getElementsByClassName =
> > Prototype.BrowserFeatures.XPath ?
> >  function(element, className) {
> >    className = className.toString().strip();
> >    var cond = /\s/.test(className) ?
> > $w(className).map(iter).join('') : iter(className);
> >    return cond ? document._getElementsByXPath('.//*' + cond,
> > element) : [];
> >  } : function(element, className) {
> >    className = className.toString().strip();
> >    var elements = [], classNames = (/\s/.test(className) ?
> > $w(className) : null);
> >    if (!classNames && !className) return elements;
>
> >    var nodes = $(element).getElementsByTagName('*');
> >    className = ' ' + className + ' ';
>
> >    for (var i = 0, child, cn; child = nodes[i]; i++) {
> >      if (child.className && (cn = ' ' + child.className + ' ') &&
> > (cn.include(className) ||
> >          (classNames && classNames.all(function(name) {
> >            return !name.toString().blank() && cn.include(' ' + name +
> > ' ');
> >          }))))
> >        elements.push(Element.extend(child));
> >    }
> >    return elements;
> >  };
>
> >  return function(className, parentElement) {
> >    return $(parentElement ||
> > document.body).getElementsByClassName(className);
> >  };
> > }(Element.Methods);
>
> > /
> > *--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > */
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