Question

I have three cells in different rows in a table having same name.e.g.

<td name = "x">

is present in 3 different rows.

I am using document.getElementsByName() to obtain a collection of these cells and trying to calculate the length of this collection. e.g.

var obj = doucment.getElementsByName("X");
  var length = obj.length;

This code works fine in Google Chrome but in IE the length is return as 0(zero).

Can anyone tell me how to sove this problem in IE?

Answer 1

I don’t think name is a valid attribute for TD elements, it should be used for Form elements.

Use class instead.

<td class="whatever">

And:

document.getElementsByClassName("whatever").length

If you need to use multiple classes, this supported as well:

<td class="whatever whatever2 allwhatevers">