var allchk = document.getElementsByName("contacts")
what is "contacts" in above line
rsridhar420 0 Newbie Poster
Shinedevil 8 Junior Poster in Training
contacts would be the HTML element that you are gathering. I do so believe that it's from the ID=contacts, identifier.
So say for example <p id=contacts>insert stuff here</p>
IIM 163 Master Poster
getElementById returns all elements with element name attribute as specified in the double quotes.
Take a look at quote from w3.org
The getElementsByName(name) method takes a string name, and must return a live NodeList containing all the HTML elements in that document that have a name attribute whose value is equal to the name argument (in a case-sensitive manner), in tree order. When the method is invoked on a Document object again with the same argument, the user agent may return the same as the object returned by the earlier call. In other cases, a new NodeList object must be returned.
from http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-20110525/dom.html#dom-document-getelementsbyclassname
imBaCodes 2 Junior Poster
Contacts is our html element name ..
Your element will be like this <input type = "text" name = "contacts" />
JorgeM 958 Problem Solver Team Colleague Featured Poster
To clarify... There are some confusing responses in this thread. The OP is asking about getElementsByName not getElementById.
document.getElementsByName() returns a HTMLCollection of all the elements with a given value for the name attribute, commonly used when targeting input elements.
IIM 163 Master Poster
@JorgeM:- typing error ,i mean there getElementsByName.
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