XML DOM getElementsByTagName() Method
 Complete Element Object Reference
Definition and Usage
The getElementsByTagName() method returns a NodeList of all a elements with a specified name.
Syntax
| getElementsByTagName(name)
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| Parameter |
Description |
| name |
A string that specifies the tagname to search for. The
value "*" matches all tags |
Example
The following code fragment loads "books.xml"
into xmlDoc using
loadXMLDoc() and gets the value of all <title> elements:
Example
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("books.xml");
x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('title');
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
document.write(x[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
document.write("<br />");
}
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Output:
Everyday Italian
Harry Potter
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