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Asked: 2026-06-09T23:51:10+00:00

xmlElement.constructor ElementConstructor htmlElement.constructor HTMLSelectElementConstructor So I found xmlElement doesn’t have methods like getElementsByTagName() and

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xmlElement.constructor

ElementConstructor

htmlElement.constructor

HTMLSelectElementConstructor

So I found xmlElement doesn’t have methods like getElementsByTagName() and other a few?

How can I get the tag with a give name name in a xmlElement node?

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actually they are the same, and there’s no difference so far, I just problem is due to:

anyElement = document.getElementsByTagName('div');

anyElement[0].getElementsByTagName('p'); // TypeError: 'undefined' is not a function

but 

element = anyElement[0];

element.getElementsByTagName('p')// this work

how does this happen if I only assign to another variable?

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  1. Editorial Team

    On the large part the APIs are very similar however HTML is a lot less strict than XML so I should imagine that it has more error handling stuff.

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