This simple js script can't set the value of "para". I guess getElementByName doesn't work. But why?
<script>
function fn()
{
document.getElementById("para").setAttribute("name","hi");
document.getElementByName("hi").setAttribute("value","my value is high");
}
</script>
HTML:
<input type="button" onClick="fn()" value="click me">
<input id="para" type="text" />
It's getElementsByName . Note the plural. It returns an array-like NodeList of elements with that name attribute.
getElemenstByName exists, which returns a collection of the elements. If you plan to find only one:
document.getElementsByName("hi")[0].setAttribute("value","my value is high");
Edit: a, HTML there (didn't see that before the edit). No 'hi' element in HTML, possibly in some XML format there is...
not getElementByName but getElementsByName, and it returns array.
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
function fn() {
document.getElementById("para").setAttribute("name","hi");
x = document.getElementsByName("hi");
x[0].setAttribute("value","my value is high");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="fn()">
<input type="text" id="para" />
</body>
</html>
Also, i find that document type must be declared to make getelementsbyname work.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">