prototyping document.getElementById

[Jeff Thies]

It seems to me that document.getEle mentById and document.all are
essentially the same thing.

I'm thinking of prototyping document.getEle mentById for those browsers that
understand document.all but not document.getEle mentById (IE4).

Is that a reasonable thing to do? Suggestions?

Jeff

[Keith Bowes]

Re: prototyping document.getEle mentById

Jeff Thies wrote:[color=blue]
> It seems to me that document.getEle mentById and document.all are
> essentially the same thing.
>
> I'm thinking of prototyping document.getEle mentById for those browsers that
> understand document.all but not document.getEle mentById (IE4).
>
> Is that a reasonable thing to do? Suggestions?
>[/color]

It's easy and has been done before, but IE4 usage is much lower than
Mozilla and browsers with partial IE-DOM support. Furthermore, its CSS
support is so hopelessly antiquated, that you probably couldn't reliably
do things common in newer browsers.

[HikksNotAtHome]

Re: prototyping document.getEle mentById

In article <Xc%Gb.10413$IM 3.7695@newsread 3.news.atl.eart hlink.net>, "Jeff
Thies" <nospam@nospam. net> writes:
[color=blue]
> It seems to me that document.getEle mentById and document.all are
>essentially the same thing.
>
>I'm thinking of prototyping document.getEle mentById for those browsers that
>understand document.all but not document.getEle mentById (IE4).
>
>Is that a reasonable thing to do? Suggestions?[/color]

Last modified on 05-05-02
URL: http://www.metalusions.com/backstage/articles/8/
Does precisely what you are trying to do.
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Randy

[Dr John Stockton]

Re: prototyping document.getEle mentById

JRS: In article <20031226184247 .21457.00002996 @mb-m10.aol.com>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, HikksNotAtHome <hikksnotathome @aol.com>
posted at Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:42:47 :-
[color=blue]
>Last modified on 05-05-02[/color]

Please do not post dates like that; it could mean 5th May 2003, May 5th
2002, or 2005 May 2nd. In an international medium, one should follow
international standards, and use YYYY-MM-DD. Actually, that is IIRC in
ANSI X3.30-1985(R1991), FIPS PUB 4-1, 4-2.

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[Dr John Stockton]

Re: prototyping document.getEle mentById

JRS: In article <Xc%Gb.10413$IM 3.7695@newsread 3.news.atl.eart hlink.net>
, seen in news:comp.lang. javascript, Jeff Thies <nospam@nospam. net>
posted at Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:36:39 :-[color=blue]
> It seems to me that document.getEle mentById and document.all are
>essentially the same thing.
>
>I'm thinking of prototyping document.getEle mentById for those browsers that
>understand document.all but not document.getEle mentById (IE4).
>
>Is that a reasonable thing to do? Suggestions?[/color]


Article
From: hikksnotathome@ aol.com (HikksNotAtHome )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.javas cript
Date: 24 Jun 2003 21:37:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Script Won't Upload in Netscape
Message-ID: <20030624173732 .17796.00001037 @mb-m15.aol.com>

included

if (document.all && !document.getEl ementById) {
document.getEle mentById = function(id) {
return document.all[id];
}
}

That looks worth a <FAQENTRY> to me; and I put it in my <URL:http://www.
merlyn.demon.co .uk/js-other.htm> as an example of Object Detection.

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