[RESOLVED] If element exists, run script… How?

Hi.

I’m using this script to make some changes to a table which is only accessible via a class serverside:

[CODE]/*
Developed by Robert Nyman, http://www.robertnyman.com
Code/licensing: http://code.google.com/p/getelementsbyclassname/
*/
var getElementsByClassName = function (className, tag, elm){
if (document.getElementsByClassName) {
getElementsByClassName = function (className, tag, elm) {
elm = elm || document;
var elements = elm.getElementsByClassName(className),
nodeName = (tag)? new RegExp(“\b” + tag + “\b”, “i”) : null,
returnElements = [],
current;
for(var i=0, il=elements.length; i<il; i+=1){
current = elements[i];
if(!nodeName || nodeName.test(current.nodeName)) {
returnElements.push(current);
}
}
return returnElements;
};
}
else if (document.evaluate) {
getElementsByClassName = function (className, tag, elm) {
tag = tag || “*”;
elm = elm || document;
var classes = className.split(” “),
classesToCheck = “”,
xhtmlNamespace = “http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”,
namespaceResolver = (document.documentElement.namespaceURI === xhtmlNamespace)? xhtmlNamespace : null,
returnElements = [],
elements,
node;
for(var j=0, jl=classes.length; j<jl; j+=1){
classesToCheck += “[contains(concat(‘ ‘, @class, ‘ ‘), ‘ ” + classes[j] + ” ‘)]”;
}
try {
elements = document.evaluate(“.//” + tag + classesToCheck, elm, namespaceResolver, 0, null);
}
catch (e) {
elements = document.evaluate(“.//” + tag + classesToCheck, elm, null, 0, null);
}
while ((node = elements.iterateNext())) {
returnElements.push(node);
}
return returnElements;
};
}
else {
getElementsByClassName = function (className, tag, elm) {
tag = tag || “*”;
elm = elm || document;
var classes = className.split(” “),
classesToCheck = [],
elements = (tag === “*” && elm.all)? elm.all : elm.getElementsByTagName(tag),
current,
returnElements = [],
match;
for(var k=0, kl=classes.length; k<kl; k+=1){
classesToCheck.push(new RegExp(“(^|\s)” + classes[k] + “(\s|$)”));
}
for(var l=0, ll=elements.length; l<ll; l+=1){
current = elements[l];
match = false;
for(var m=0, ml=classesToCheck.length; m<ml; m+=1){
match = classesToCheck[m].test(current.className);
if (!match) {
break;
}
}
if (match) {
returnElements.push(current);
}
}
return returnElements;
};
}
return getElementsByClassName(className, tag, elm);
};

function replace_stuff () {
getElementsByClassName(“login-headline”,”table”)[0].border = 0;}[/CODE]

The first part of the code is a script from Robert Nyman, [url]http://www.robertnyman.com[/url] – my function is added at the end of the script. It works fine, but my page is dynamically generated and sometimes this element with the class name doesn’t exist. This gives an error when the page is loaded: “getElementsByClassName(“login-headline”, “table”)[0] is undefined”. How can my function be rewritten so that it checks to see if the class is avaliable before running the script?

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks.

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