The getElementsByName()
method of the Document
object returns a NodeList
Collection of elements with a given name
attribute in the document.
The getElementsByName()
method of the Document
object returns a NodeList
Collection of elements with a given name
attribute in the document.
name
The value of the name
attribute of the element(s) we are looking for.
A live NodeList
collection, meaning it automatically updates as new elements with the same name
are added to, or removed from, the document.
The name
attribute can only be applied in (X)HTML documents.
The returned NodeList
Collection contains all elements with the given name
, such as <meta>
, <object>
, and even elements which do not support the name
attribute at all.
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-document-getelementsbyname-dev |
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getElementsByName |
1 | 12Before Edge 79, this method returns anHTMLCollection , not a NodeList . |
1 | 5Returns anHTMLCollection , not a NodeList |
5 | 1 | 4.4 | 18 | 4 | 10.1 | 1 | 1.0 |
document.getElementById()
to return a reference to an element by its unique id
document.getElementsByTagName()
to return references to elements with the same tag name document.querySelector()
to return references to elements via CSS selectors like 'div.myclass'
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