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micmath on 09/12/07


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Find any node

Published in: JavaScript 

Lets you find every node in a document based on any test.

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  1. function findElements(test, container) {
  2.     if (!container) container = document;
  3.     if (!container.all) container.all = container.getElementsByTagName('*');
  4.     var result = [];
  5.     for(var i = 0; i < container.all.length; i++) {
  6.         var el = container.all[i];
  7.         if (test(el)) result.push(el);
  8.     }
  9.     return result;
  10. }
  11.  
  12. // For example, get every node with a certain class name like...
  13. // <div class="movable"> and <p class="hilighted movable">
  14. var movables = findElements(function(el){return el.className.indexOf('movable') > -1});

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