Louis,
In this senario, I usually add a class to the set of elements I'm
interested in getting back to later on by doing a
Element.addClassName() and then doing a getElementsByClassName() later
on. You can remove the 'dummy' class later if you need to:
Element.removeClassName()
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Cam
On 2/23/06, Louis Walch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thanks rob, i will give input_.+ a shot.
>
> i use a custom attrib named fldtype for some input items and am hoping to
> assign different actions to each input based on that.
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> > Louis Walch wrote:
> >> i would like to detect classnames of input_(ANYTHING) is this possible
> >> with getElementsByClassName?
> >
> > Looking at the source code you could do
> > getELementsByClassName("input_.+");, although it's undocumented
> > behaviour so it might mysteriously break after a prototype upgrade one
> > day. I know the current method (of using a regexp) is one of the slowest
> > ways of doing it.
> >
> >>
> >> also, is tthere a way to get elements by attribute? or would that be too
> >> heavy on the load time?
> >
> > That shouldn't be too intensive. See prototype.js's defnition for
> > getElementsByClassName and hack your own. What attribute would this be
> > useful for? Getting all text inputs? I would just getElementsByTagName
> > and do a quick loop.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
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