getElementByName?

[Howdy_McGee]

I was wondering if it's possible to get an element by name, sorta like a toTop link. (Ex. href="#top" - somwhere else on page - name="top")I'm trying to write a hover script and link the href="#ID" to another div with the name="ID", is there anyway to do this?

[Ingolme]

You should just use the ID attribute. The name attribute is deprecated in favor of ID for all elements except <input>, <select> and <textarea>

[jeffman]

FWIW, there is an HTML5 getElementsByName method (note the 's') but it is not universally supported yet. So you wouldn't want to use it anyway.

[End User]

You should just use the ID attribute. The name attribute is deprecated in favor of ID for all elements except <input>, <select> and <textarea>

I'm not sure that's actually correct...according to the spec it's only deprecated for the elements: a, applet, form, frame, iframe, img, and map. It's still used for all other form elements (radio, checkbox, text, etc).

[boen_robot]

I'm not sure that's actually correct...according to the spec it's only deprecated for the elements: a, applet, form, frame, iframe, img, and map. It's still used for all other form elements (radio, checkbox, text, etc).

And the radio, checkbox, text, etc. are implemented by which elements? ... The "input" (with different types such as radio, checkbox, etc.), "select" and "textarea", which is what DD said.(If you can see an element that is not one of these, and does not deprecate the use of the form element on it, then you'd be right...)