Question

Do you know why this is failing, I mean alert is working (it shows me that if found the button) but text or background is not changed:

    $('input[type=button]').click( function() {

    var button=document.getElementsByName("contactme");
    alert(button.length + " elements!");
    button.value="New Button Text";
   button.style.backgroundImage="url(some_real_gif);"
});

HTML:

<input type="button" name="contactme" value="test"/>

Thanks…

I have to use plain java script not jQuery..

Answer 1

It looks like var button=document.getElementsByName("contactme"); would return an array of elements. Try:

var button=document.getElementsByName("contactme")[0];