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Sep 26.2003

Hey guys, just a quick question…

To reference the anchors in an HTML document, I know that I use document.anchors

However, what do I do to reference the DIVs and the SPANs that I have in my page? Is there an array that is automatically created for those, also? Thanks a ton for your help!

-jinkas

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@VladdySep 26.2003 — document.body.getElementsByTagName(tagName) will return the array of elements which have a specified tag.
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@jinkasauthorSep 26.2003 — [i]Originally posted by Vladdy [/i]

[B]document.body.getElementsByTagName(tagName) will return the array of elements which have a specified tag. [/B][/QUOTE]

So I would use something like this?:

divArray = document.body.getElementsByTagName(div);

for (i=0;i<divArray.length;i++) {

divArray[i].style.visibility = "visible";

}
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@VladdySep 26.2003 — tagName is a string, so the it should be .getElementsByTagName('div');
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@jinkasauthorSep 26.2003 — Right. Thanks a ton for your help!
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