Question

<div id="content_heading">
   <span id="status">
       <h1><em>Some Element</em></h1>
   </span>
 </div>

I wanted to get h1 and $('span h1') is not working.
Also $$('h1') returns an array and i can get first element from array as $$('h1')[0]
Is there any way to find more accurate element something like $('div#content_heading span h1')?

Answer 1

Make sure you run the code after DOM is ready:

document.observe("dom:loaded", function(){
    var header = $$("span h1")[0];
});

See example here.