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Thread: Div cannot be found using getElementsByTagName

  1. #1
    raredesign Guest

    Div cannot be found using getElementsByTagName

    I have a few issues here:

    for some background, I am working with a Microsoft solution that generates report pages, but I don't want one of the links to work. My effort is to replace the link with a javascript:void(0).

    1) I am searching for a div with a class of 'myclass', but the array is skipping it entirely.
    Many of the divs on the page are found, but not the one I am after, it is very strange.

    2) Even if I do find the div (in other tests), I can't get the link to be replaced without referencing document.links[i]. I can pull the same value by using document.getElementsByTagName('div')[i].childNodes[0]); but I cannot replace it with a different value. Instead I just get a JS page error saying that it is not supported or something.

    I know my code below will not work, since it is taking for granted that the only links on the page are actually in a div. So what happens when there is a link outside of the div? Then the reference that I have of document.links[i], becomes irrelevant to the position in the array based on the number of div's.

    here is what I have:

    <script type="text/javascript">
    window.onload= function(){
    DisableEnableLinks()
    }


    function DisableEnableLinks()
    {
    var elements=document.getElementsByTagName('div');
    for (i=0; i<elements.length; i++){
    //alert(elements[i].className);
    //alert(elements[i].childNodes[0]);
    if (elements[i].className == 'myclass'){
    alert(elements[i].className);
    document.links[i].href = "javascript:void(0)";
    }
    }
    }
    </script>
    Last edited by raredesign; 01 Apr 2009 at 07:43 AM.

  2. #2
    raredesign Guest
    this just became much more difficult. Even if I get this working, I don't see how I can overwrite the anchor since there isn't one! One of the JS files must be doing a getElement lookup and then using a postback or something, because on the text that I am trying to remove the link from, there is absolutely no event to cause the hyperlink.

    it is simply text with an H3 tag and a class assigned to the <tr> it is in.

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