how to access the id of textarea in javascript

Question

hi all, i have to acces the id of textarea in javasript.Please tell me how we can access the id of the textarea in javascript.

Answer 1

alert(document.getElementById("urtextboxId").id);

Answer 2

If you want to access ids of all textarea in your document you can use this

var txtAreas = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea");
var len = txtAreas.length;
var ids = new Array();

for(i=0; i<len; i++)
{
    ids.push(txtAreas[i].id);    
}