Question

I want to show and hide rows of a table based on the value of a select box and this works in Firefox but not IE:

<select onChange="javascript: toggle(this.value);">
 <option value="cat0">category 0</option>
 <option value="cat1">category 1</option>
</select>

<table>
<tr name="cat0">
  <td>some stuff v</td>
  <td>some stuff v</td>
</tr>
<tr name="cat0">
  <td>some stuff d</td>
  <td>some stuff d</td>
</tr>
<tr name="cat1">
  <td>some stuff a</td>
  <td>some stuff a</td>
</tr>
<tr name="cat1">
  <td>some stuff b</td>
  <td>some stuff b</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script type="text/javascript">
function toggle(category)
{
    // turn everything off
    for (var i = 0; i < 2; i++)
    {
        var cat = document.getElementsByName('cat' + i);
        for (var j = 0; j < cat.length; j++)
            cat[j].style.display = 'none';
    }

    // turn on category chosen
    var cat = document.getElementsByName(category);
    for (var i = 0; i < cat.length; i++)
        cat[i].style.display = '';
}
// start by showing cat0
toggle('cat0');
</script>

Answer 1

IE doesn’t let you access table rows using the document.getElementsByName method. If you use ID’s instead of name’s it will work. See this page for code that does just what you are looking for: http://www.toolazy.me.uk/template.php?content=getelementsbyname.xml