Subj : Re: Shouldn't getElementById use name attribute of INPUT control?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Martin Honnen
Date : Sun Sep 12 2004 01:37 pm



Larry Wynne wrote:

> HttpUnit seems to only look for the "id" attribute of an HTML element
> when executing the getElementById javascript and doesn't recognize the
> "name" attribute. In a browser this method will work for both "id" and
> "name" attributes.

Then the browser is not following the W3C DOM specification, it is 
probably IE on Windows that does that.
Try document.getElementsByName('field').item(0).


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