Question

...
<td id="mycell">
   <input type="text" name="year" onmouseout="do_something(this.value,...);" />
   <input type="text" name="month" onmouseout="do_something(this.value,...);" />
</td>
...

i need to get value of neighbouring input element when submitting function on other element.
Thing is there are 10 of them and i cannot use id, names are same as well.

So i need to somehow get parent <td> and then address its child e.g. i submit year then onmouseout="do_something(this.value, this.parent.td.month.value");"

Answer 1

If you have a reference to one of the input elements, then:

var td = input.parentNode;

And you can then select all child input elements using:

var inputs = td.getElementsByTagName('input');

And to get a particular one:

var input0 = inputs[0];

and so on. To get an adjacent input, find the current input in the inputs collection, then grab the next or previous (if there is one) as required.