On 6/12/07, Dan G. Switzer, II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Plus, what happens if you have: <div id="bam" /> <span id="bam" /> What if you need to retrieve the span tag? If it's checking #bam first, won't it only find the <div /> element?
The DOM2 has this to say: getElementById introduced in DOM Level 2
Returns the Element whose ID is given by elementId. If no such element exists, returns null. Behavior is not defined if more than one element has this ID.
Source: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-getElBId I would think that the first one the browser finds is selected, but I can't be certain of that as I've never actually tried to do this. -- Aaron Heimlich Web Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://aheimlich.freepgs.com