Getting elements by a partial id string in javascript

Question

I have the followng code:

var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
for (var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
inputs[i].disabled = bDisabled;
}

I need to now add some logic to only disable the the inputs that have and Id of the form "bib*" where bib can be any character. Ive seen other questions where this is done with jquery but I cant use jquery just simple javascript. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

This is pretty basic stuff.

var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
for (var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
  if(inputs[i].id.indexOf("bib") == 0)
    inputs[i].disabled = bDisabled;
}

Answer 2

function CheckDynamicValue(partialid, value) {

var re = new RegExp(partialid, 'g');
var elems = document.getElementsByTagName('*'), i = 0, el;
while (el = elems[i++]) {
    if (el.id.match(re)) {
        el.disabled = value;
    }
}

}