If you want to select any elements that are child of a specific element you can do so like this
$('myparentelement').select('span'); will select all spans that are children of the element with id myparentelement Jason Westbrook | T: 313-799-3770 | jwestbr...@gmail.com On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Ubik <emiliano.lepor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess you need to include Prototype in the parent document too. > BTW, use $$ to select elements in your document: $$('div') will give you > any DIV element in your current document, almost like > document.querySelectorAll; use $( id ) as a replacement of > document.getElementById( id ) > > > On Monday, July 15, 2013 10:14:05 PM UTC+2, Balaram Das Mahant wrote: >> >> I am new to Prototype, I have a webpage and an iframe in it. I am loading >> Prototype in my iframe and am trying to use Selector API to get DOM >> references for elements of my parent window. >> Eg: >> Selector.findChildElements(**document,['div']) is returning references >> to DIV elements of iframe's document. But,Selector.** >> findChildElements(parent.**document,['div']) is not returning any >> references to DIV elements of parent's document. Instead, giving an error >> "TypeError: >> Cannot call method 'identify' of null". When I deep dive into code, I >> find 'Element' is actually adding 'identify' method (which is in my iframe >> context, which is addigning a dummy 'id' attribute). First of all my >> understanding of Prototype and its Selector API is poor, please suggest a >> way I can use Selector API to fetch references to DOM elements of my parent >> document. >> >> Thanks in Advance. >> -Balaram. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to > prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.