Using jQuery, what's the best way to find the next form element on the page, starting from an arbitrary element? When I say form element I mean <input>, <select>, <button> or <textarea>.
In the following examples, the element with the id "this" is the arbitrary starting point, and the element with the id "next" is the one I want to find. The same answer should work for all examples.
Example 1:
<ul>
<li><input type="text" /></li>
<li><input id="this" type="text" /></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><input id="next" type="text" /></li>
</ul>
<button></button>
Example 2:
<ul>
<li><input id="this" type="text" /></li>
</ul>
<button id="next"></button>
Example 3:
<input id="this" type="text" />
<input id="next" type="text" />
Example 4:
<div>
<input id="this" type="text" />
<input type="hidden" />
<div>
<table>
<tr><td></td><td><input id="next" type="text" /></td></tr>
</table>
</div>
<button></button>
</div>
EDIT: The two answers provided so far both require writing a sequence number to all input elements on the page. As I mentioned in the comments of one of them, this is kind of what I'm already doing and I would much prefer have a read-only solution since this will be happening inside a plugin.
kudos,
What about using .index?
e.g $(':input:eq(' + ($(':input').index(this) + 1) + ')');
redsquare is absolutely right, and a great solution also, which I also used in one of my project.
I just wanted to point out that he is missing some parentheses, since the current solution concatenates the index with 1, instead of adding them together.
So the corrected solution would look like:
$(":input:eq(" + ($(":input").index(this) + 1) + ")");
Sorry about the double-post, but I couldn't find a way to comment his post...
This solution does not require indexes, and also plays nicely with tabindex - in other words, it gives you the exact element that the browser would give you on tab, every time, without any extra work.
function nextOnTabIndex(element) {
var fields = $($('form')
.find('a[href], button, input, select, textarea')
.filter(':visible').filter('a, :enabled')
.toArray()
.sort(function(a, b) {
return ((a.tabIndex > 0) ? a.tabIndex : 1000) - ((b.tabIndex > 0) ? b.tabIndex : 1000);
}));
return fields.eq((fields.index(element) + 1) % fields.length);
}
It works by grabbing all tabbable fields in the form (as allowed by http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/editing.html#focus-management), and then sorting the fields based on (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/editing.html#sequential-focus-navigation-and-the-tabindex-attribute) to work out the next element to tab to. Once it has that, it looks at where the passed in field is in that array, and returns the next element.
A few things to note:
jQuery appears to support sort() on a jQuery object, but I can't find
it explicitly in the documentation, hence calling toArray() and then
rewrapping the array in a jQuery object.
There are other fields that
it is okay to tab to, but I left them out as they aren't standard
form fields.
The code I used to test this was (using jQuery 1.7):
<script>
$(function() {
$('a[href], button, input, select, textarea').click(function() {
console.log(nextOnTabIndex($(this)).attr('name'));
})
});
</script>
<form>
<input type='text' name='a'/>
<input type='text' name='b' tabindex='1' />
<a>Hello</a>
<input type='text' name='c'/>
<textarea name='d' tabindex='2'></textarea>
<input id='submit' type='submit' name='e' tabindex='1' />
</form>
After trying every code I could find (and having issues between browsers), I found one that works in the top browsers. Couldn't use the previous routines because of some weird issues.
$(document.body).keydown(function(event) {
if(event.keyCode == 13 ) {
$(":input")[$(":input").index(document.activeElement) + 1].focus();
return false;
}
});
Hope this helps someone else. Enjoy.
You can do this to take a complete list of the form elements you are looking for:
var yourFormFields = $("yourForm").find('button,input,textarea,select');
Then, should be easy find the next element:
var index = yourFormFields.index( this ); // the index of your current element in the list. if the current element is not in the list, index = -1
if ( index > -1 && ( index + 1 ) < yourFormFields.length ) {
var nextElement = yourFormFields.eq( index + 1 );
}
You could give each form item an id (or unique class name) that identified it as a form element and also gave it an index. For example:
<div>
<input id="FormElement_0" type="text" />
<input id="FormElement_1" type="text" />
<div>
Then, if you want to traverse from the first element to the second you can do something like this:
//I'm assuming "this" is referring to the first input
//grab the id
var id = $(this).attr('id');
//get the index from the id and increment it
var index = parseInt(id.split('_')[0], 10);
index++;
//grab the element witht that index
var next = $('#FormElement_' + index);
The benefit of this is that you can tag any element to be next, regardless of location or type. You can also control the order of your traversal. So, if for any reason you want to skip an element and come back to it later, you can do that too.
Or you could use the html attribute 'tabindex' which is for when a user tabs around a form, it goes to tabindex="i" to tabindex="i+1". You can use jQuery to get the attribute very easily. Would make for a nice fall back to users without javascript enabled, also.
I came up with a function that does the job without explicitly defining indexes:
function nextInput(form, id) {
var aInputs = $('#' + form).find(':input[type!=hidden]');
for (var i in aInputs) {
if ($(aInputs[i]).attr('id') == id) {
if (typeof(aInputs[parseInt(i) + 1]) != 'undefined') {
return aInputs[parseInt(i) + 1];
}
}
}
}
And here's a working example. The form tags are for consistency. All you really need is a common parent and could even just use the body tag as the parent (with a slight modification to the function).
Paste this into a file and open with firefox / firebug and you'll see it returns the correct element for all your examples:
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
function nextInput(form, id) {
var aInputs = $('#' + form).find(':input[type!=hidden]');
for (var i in aInputs) {
if ($(aInputs[i]).attr('id') == id) {
if (typeof(aInputs[parseInt(i) + 1]) != 'undefined') {
return aInputs[parseInt(i) + 1];
}
}
}
}
google.load("jquery", "1.2.6");
google.setOnLoadCallback(function() {
console.log(nextInput('myform1', 'this1'));
console.log(nextInput('myform2', 'this2'));
console.log(nextInput('myform3', 'this3'));
console.log(nextInput('myform4', 'this4'));
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="myform1">
<ul>
<li><input type="text" /></li>
<li><input id="this1" type="text" /></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><input id="next1" type="text" /></li>
</ul>
</form>
<form id="myform2">
<ul>
<li><input type="text" /></li>
<li><input id="this2" type="text" /></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><input id="next2" type="text" /></li>
</ul>
</form>
<form id="myform3">
<input id="this3" type="text" />
<input id="next3" type="text" />
</form>
<form id="myform4">
<div>
<input id="this4" type="text" />
<input type="hidden" />
<div>
<table>
<tr><td></td><td><input id="next4" type="text" /></td></tr>
</table>
</div>
<button></button>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
You can use jQuery field plugin which allows you to do that.
var elementSelector = "input:visible,textarea:visible";
var nextSibling = $(elementSelector )[$(elementSelector ).index() + 1];
//$(nextSibling).focus(); possible action
I just think above solution is simpler, or you can just add it all in one line if you want :-)
var nextSibling = $("input:visible,textarea:visible")[$("input:visible,textarea:visible").index() + 1];
This worked well for me, and it correctly skips over hidden inputs:
input_el.nextAll( 'input:visible:first' ).focus();
All solutions using index (or nextAll) will only work where all the form inputs are siblings, e.g. within the same <div> block. The following gets round that by creating an array of ids of all visible, non-readonly inputs on the page and picks out the first one after the current control, wrapping round if the current control is the last one on the page.
ids = $(":input:visible:not([readonly])").map(function () { return this.id });
nextId = ids[($.inArray($(this).attr("id"), ids) + 1) % ids.length];
$("#" + nextId).focus();
Using the map function makes it a little more succinct than solutions involving iterators.
Related
How do I identify empty textboxes using jQuery? I would like to do it using selectors if it is at all possible. Also, I must select on id since in the real code where I want to use this I don't want to select all text inputs.
In my following two code examples the first one accurately displays the value typed into the textbox "txt2" by the user. The second example identifies that there is an empty textbox, but if you fill it in it still regards it as empty. Why is this?
Can this be done using just selectors?
This code reports the value in textbox "txt2":
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('#cmdSubmit').click(function() {
alert($('[id=txt2]').val());
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="text" name="txt1" id="txt1" value="123" /><br />
<input type="text" name="txt2" id="txt2" value="" /><br />
<input type="text" name="txt3" id="txt3" value="abc" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="cmdSubmit" id='cmdSubmit' value="Send" /><br />
</form>
</body>
</html>
This code always reports textbox "txt2" as empty:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$('#cmdSubmit').click(function() {
if($('[id^=txt][value=""]').length > 0) {
if (!confirm("Are you sure you want to submit empty fields?")) {
if (event.preventDefault) {
event.preventDefault();
} else {
event.returnValue = false;
}
}
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<input type="text" name="txt1" id="txt1" value="123" /><br />
<input type="text" name="txt2" id="txt2" value="" /><br />
<input type="text" name="txt3" id="txt3" value="abc" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="cmdSubmit" id='cmdSubmit' value="Send" /><br />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Another way
$('input:text').filter(function() { return $(this).val() == ""; });
or
$('input:text').filter(function() { return this.value == ""; });
or
// WARNING: if input element does not have the "value" attribute or this attribute was removed from DOM then such selector WILL NOT WORK!
// For example input with type="file" and file does not selected.
// It's prefer to use "filter()" method.
// Thanks to #AaronLS
$('input:text[value=""]');
Working Demo
code from the demo
jQuery
$(function() {
$('#button').click(function() {
var emptyTextBoxes = $('input:text').filter(function() { return this.value == ""; });
var string = "The blank textbox ids are - \n";
emptyTextBoxes.each(function() {
string += "\n" + this.id;
});
alert(string);
});
});
You could also do it by defining your own selector:
$.extend($.expr[':'],{
textboxEmpty: function(el){
return $(el).val() === "";
}
});
And then access them like this:
alert($(':text:textboxEmpty').length); //alerts the number of text boxes in your selection
$(":text[value='']").doStuff();
?
By the way, your call of:
$('input[id=cmdSubmit]')...
can be greatly simplified and speeded up with:
$('#cmdSubmit')...
As mentioned in the top ranked post, the following works with the Sizzle engine.
$('input:text[value=""]');
In the comments, it was noted that removing the :text portion of the selector causes the selector to fail. I believe what's happening is that Sizzle actually relies on the browser's built in selector engine when possible. When :text is added to the selector, it becomes a non-standard CSS selector and thereby must needs be handled by Sizzle itself. This means that Sizzle checks the current value of the INPUT, instead of the "value" attribute specified in the source HTML.
So it's a clever way to check for empty text fields, but I think it relies on a behavior specific to the Sizzle engine (that of using the current value of the INPUT instead of the attribute defined in the source code). While Sizzle might return elements that match this selector, document.querySelectorAll will only return elements that have value="" in the HTML. Caveat emptor.
$("input[type=text][value=]")
After trying a lots of version I found this the most logical.
Note that text is case-sensitive.
There are a lot of answers here suggesting something like [value=""] but I don't think that actually works . . . or at least, the usage is not consistent. I'm trying to do something similar, selecting all inputs with ids beginning with a certain string that also have no entered value. I tried this:
$("input[id^='something'][value='']")
but it doesn't work. Nor does reversing them. See this fiddle. The only ways I found to correctly select all inputs with ids beginning with a string and without an entered value were
$("input[id^='something']").not("[value!='']")
and
$("input[id^='something']:not([value!=''])")
but obviously, the double negatives make that really confusing. Probably, Russ Cam's first answer (with a filtering function) is the most clear method.
Building on #James Wiseman's answer, I am using this:
$.extend($.expr[':'],{
blank: function(el){
return $(el).val().match(/^\s*$/);
}
});
This will catch inputs which contain only whitespace in addition to those which are 'truly' empty.
Example: http://jsfiddle.net/e9btdbyn/
I'd recommend:
$('input:text:not([value])')
This will select empty text inputs with an id that starts with "txt":
$(':text[value=""][id^=txt]')
Since creating an JQuery object for every comparison is not efficient, just use:
$.expr[":"].blank = function(element) {
return element.value == "";
};
Then you can do:
$(":input:blank")
I am supposed to have the same HTML code segment repeated multiple times on the same page. I have an external JavaScript file whose functionality is meant to be invoked whenever a user interacts with one of the repeated segments. However, only the first of the three code segments is impacted upon interaction. When interacting with the other two, nothing happens, meaning, the JavaScript does not get invoked.
I would assume that if all HTML code segments have the same IDs and classes (aside from the fact that unique IDs should be assigned), then at the least the content in all 3 HTML segments would change if changes are made in any of the other instances of these segments.
Here is an example of this issue:
<input id="my-id" type="text" />
<input id="my-id" type="text" />
<input id="my-id" type="text" />
<script>
var textbox = document.getElementById("my-id");
textbox.onkeyup = function() {
alert("ok");
}
</script>
Here, only interaction with the first instance of my-id creates the alert box, the other 2, don't. How can I make my code so that it applies to all 3 textboxes?
you should not use same id for multiple elements. The selector will return only first matched element in case of multiple elements with same id. It would be better if you use class instead of id. something like this will work:
<input class="my-id" type="text" />
<input class="my-id" type="text" />
<input class="my-id" type="text" />
<script>
var textboxes = document.getElementsByClassName("my-id");
for (var i = 0; i < textboxes.length; i++) {
textboxes[i].onkeyup = function(){
alert("ok");
};
}
</script>
You cannot have same id to all div's, ID's should be unique. Please change the ID to class in order to work.
Calling Javascript functions on a specific ID when there are multiple instances of the ID (which is a big no-no) will only work on the first instance in the DOM. Try calling your function on either the inputs or assign a class to each input and call it on the class.
You cannot use ID names in multiple times.. Change ID to CLASS.. It will work....
ID's must be unique!
In order to use the same javacsript functions for multiple div, assign a common class for all the divs and invoke the js function for the class!
Ids have to be unique, see: Can multiple different HTML elements have the same ID if they're different elements?. beside that getElementById returns only one element. Take a look at Adding event listeners to multiple elements
var textboxes = document.getElementsByClassName("my-class");
function keyUpListener() {
console.log("ok");
}
for (var i = 0; i < textboxes.length; i++) {
textboxes[i].addEventListener('keyup', keyUpListener, false);
}
<input class="my-class" type="text" />
<input class="my-class" type="text" />
<input class="my-class" type="text" />
Or use event delegation:
function keyUpListener(event) {
if( event.target.getAttribute('class').split(' ').indexOf('my-class') !== -1 ) {
console.log( 'ok' );
}
}
document.addEventListener('keyup', keyUpListener, false);
<input class="my-class" type="text" />
<input class="my-class" type="text" />
<input class="my-class" type="text" />
Because element ID must be unique, this attribute cannot be utilized to bind click event.
HTML5 support CSS Selector, a powerful mechanism to identify element that has similar characteristic.
Your code can be re-written with CSS Selector like below:
<input type="text" data-item="Text box 1"/>
<input type="text" data-item="Text box 2"/>
<input type="text" data-item="Text box 3"/>
<script>
function keyUpListener() {
var itemId = this.getAttribute('data-item');
alert(itemId);
}
var textboxes = document.querySelectorAll('input');
for (var i = 0; i < textboxes.length; i++) {
textboxes[i].addEventListener('keydown', keyUpListener, false);
}
</script>
I want to be able to display the same piece of html code 10 times under the div called: <div id="add_remove_product_name"> By clicking on the button called: <button id="add_another_product_name">. I think I need some kind of a for loop for the job but are not sure. Any suggestion will be helpful, thanks.
My HTML code:
<div id="product_name">
<input id="skriv_produktnavn" placeholder="Skriv Produktnavn her" required></label>
<button id="add_another_product_name">Tilføj endnu et produktnavn</button>
<div id="add_remove_product_name">
<input id="added_product_name" placeholder="Skriv Produktnavn her" required></label>
<button id="remove_product_name">X</button>
</div>
Use a for loop to concatenate 10 copies of the HTML code. Then use .after() to put this after the DIV.
$("#add_another_product_name").click(function() {
var html = '';
for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
html += 'html code that you want to repeat';
}
$("#add_remove_product_name").after(html);
}
You can use jQuery clone() however when cloning an element all the attributes will be the same. Fo example they will all have the same id attribute which will cause problems and it is not valid html
So in order to do the clone correctly you have fix the cloned element
DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/rpyt445e/
var $tpl = $('#product_name').clone();
var num = 0
$('#clone').click(function () {
num++;
var $cloned = $tpl.clone();
$cloned.attr('id', $tpl.attr('id') + '_' + num);
$(':not([id=""])', $cloned).each(function(){
$(this).attr('id', $(this).attr('id') + '_'+num);
});
$cloned.appendTo('#wrapper');
});
HTML:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="product_name">
<input id="skriv_produktnavn" placeholder="Skriv Produktnavn her" required />
<button id="add_another_product_name">Tilføj endnu et produktnavn</button>
<div id="add_remove_product_name">
<input id="added_product_name" placeholder="Skriv Produktnavn her" required />
<button id="remove_product_name">X</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<button id="clone">Clone</button>
A technique for adding the additional elements without having to create ugly strings of html in the JavaScript is to start with one hidden set of the elements in the html. At page load time, you remove that set, but keep a reference to it. Then when you want to add a set to the page, you clone the set you removed. All of this is easier if you add a container div around the additional inputs.
You also need to make sure id attribute values are unique. In the case of the remove buttons, you can replace the id with a class. As for the input id values, if you really need them, you can add an index value to them.
Since the remove buttons are dynamically added, I suggest using event delegation when binding the click-handler.
HTML:
<div id="product_name">
<input id="skriv_produktnavn" placeholder="Skriv Produktnavn her" required="required"/>
<button id="add_another_product_name">Tilføj endnu et produktnavn</button>
<div id="additional_product_names">
<div class="add_remove_product_name" style="display: none;">
<input id="added_product_name" placeholder="Skriv Produktnavn her" required="required"/>
<button class="remove_product_name">X</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
JavaScript:
$(function() {
var MAX = 10;
var $addBtn = $('#add_another_product_name'),
$additionalContainer = $('#additional_product_names');
$TEMPLATE = $additionalContainer.children(':first').remove();
function update() {
var $additonalDivs = $additionalContainer.children();
// Enable/disable the add button.
$addBtn.prop('disabled', $additonalDivs.length >= MAX);
// Re-index the "id" attributes.
$additonalDivs.find('input').attr('id', function(i) {
return 'added_product_name[' + i + ']';
});
}
$addBtn.click(function() {
$TEMPLATE.clone().appendTo($additionalContainer).show();
update();
});
$('#product_name').on('click', '.remove_product_name', function() {
$(this).closest('.add_remove_product_name').remove();
update();
});
});
jsfiddle
I am trying to get element name and class from a form that is passed on to a function. How can i do that?
Html side.
<form name="test">
<div>
<input type="text" class="test1" name="test2"/>
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" class="test3" name="test4"/>
</div>
</form>
<div>
<input type="button" data-ng-click="save(test)" />
</div>
and Javascript side
$scope.save = function(form){
for(how many elements are there)
(get elements values)
}
how can I do that, can it even be done like that? My purpose is to change class and some other attributes when it's necessary.
You can access the form directly from $scope using its name, i.e. $scope.test, and the elements from the form, e.g. $scope.test.test2.
However, if you want to loop through the elements without having to know their individual names you can do something like:
angular.forEach($scope.test, function (element, name) {
if (!name.startsWith('$')) {
// element is a form element!
}
});
I'm relatively new to AngularJS, but I am going to make a solid attempt to answer to test my knowledge and hopefully help you.
So in your form, on each of your elements you should use a ng-model. For example, here is a form that may collect a users first and last name:
<form name="test">
<div>
<input type="text" class="test1" name="test2" data-ng-model="user.name/>
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" class="test3" name="test4" data-ng-model="user.last/>
</div>
</form>
<div>
<input type="button" data-ng-click="save(test)" />
</div>
This will allow you to access the data in your form through $scope.user.
Now for changing classes and attributes, I'm not sure what rules dictate a class/attribute change on your form, but you could use the ng-dirty class as a "flag" to watch for when the user makes a change. Some more information here as to what exactly you are trying to accomplish would be helpful.
A common piece of advice I've seen for angular.js is that, you should only do DOM manipulation in directives, so you should definitely consider doing it according to Anthony's answer, that is, using ng-model.
Go down below to see a way to do it more properly using directives.
But if you insist on doing it in the controller, here is a jsfidle that shows you how you can approach it:
http://jsfiddle.net/3BBbc/2/
HTML:
<body ng-app="myApp">
<div ng-controller="MyCtrl">
<form id="test">
<div>
<input type="text" class="test1" name="test2" />
</div>
<div>
<input type="text" class="test3" name="test4" />
</div>
</form>
<div>
<input type="button" ng-click="save('test')" value="submit" />
</div>
</div>
</body>
JavaScript:
var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []);
function MyCtrl($scope) {
$scope.save = function (formId) {
$('#' + formId).find('input').each(function (idx, input) {
// Do your DOM manipulation here
console.log($(input).val());
});
};
}
And here is the jsfiddle showing you how to do it with directives. It's a bit more complicated though...:
http://jsfiddle.net/3BBbc/5/
I am trying to get element name and class from a form that is passed on to a function. How can i do that?
Your pseudocode is on the right track:
$scope.save = function( formName ) {
angular.forEach( $scope[ formName ], function( field, fieldName ) {
// Ignore Angular properties; we only want form fields
if( fieldName[ 0 ] === '$' ) {
return;
}
// "fieldName" contains the name of the field
// Get the value
var fieldValue = field.$viewValue;
} );
}
My purpose is to change class and some other attributes when it's necessary.
To do that, you can get the field elements, with the Angular element wrapper:
// Get the field element, as an Angular element
var fieldElement = angular.element( document.querySelector( '[name="' + fieldName + '"]' ) );
You can then use various jqLite methods on these elements. For instance, to set the element's class (overwriting the existing class), you can use the attr method:
// Replace existing class with "new-class"
fieldElement.attr( 'class', 'new-class' );
Please forgive me if I repeat the question.
I have HTML that all elements inside a div tag has different id, suppose I have already get the reference to the div, is there any simple way to get the element by its id without iterate all elements with that div?
here is my sample html:
<div id="div1" >
<input type="text" id="edit1" />
<input type="text" id="edit2" />
</div>
<div id="div2" >
<input type="text" id="edit1" />
<input type="text" id="edit2" />
</div>
You may try something like this.
Sample Markup.
<div id="div1" >
<input type="text" id="edit1" />
<input type="text" id="edit2" />
</div>
<div id="div2" >
<input type="text" id="edit3" />
<input type="text" id="edit4" />
</div>
JavaScript
function GetElementInsideContainer(containerID, childID) {
var elm = {};
var elms = document.getElementById(containerID).getElementsByTagName("*");
for (var i = 0; i < elms.length; i++) {
if (elms[i].id === childID) {
elm = elms[i];
break;
}
}
return elm;
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/naveen/H8j2A/
A better method as suggested by nnnnnn
function GetElementInsideContainer(containerID, childID) {
var elm = document.getElementById(childID);
var parent = elm ? elm.parentNode : {};
return (parent.id && parent.id === containerID) ? elm : {};
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/naveen/4JMgF/
Call it like
var e = GetElementInsideContainer("div1", "edit1");
var x = document.getElementById("parent").querySelector("#child");
// don't forget a #
or
var x = document.querySelector("#parent").querySelector("#child");
or
var x = document.querySelector("#parent #child");
or
var x = document.querySelector("#parent");
var y = x.querySelector("#child");
eg.
var x = document.querySelector("#div1").querySelector("#edit2");
You don't want to do this. It is invalid HTML to have more than one element with the same id. Browsers won't treat that well, and you will have undefined behavior, meaning you have no idea what the browser will give you when you select an element by that id, it could be unpredictable.
You should be using a class, or just iterating through the inputs and keeping track of an index.
Try something like this:
var div2 = document.getElementById('div2');
for(i = j = 0; i < div2.childNodes.length; i++)
if(div2.childNodes[i].nodeName == 'INPUT'){
j++;
var input = div2.childNodes[i];
alert('This is edit'+j+': '+input);
}
JSFiddle
A given ID can be only used once in a page. It's invalid HTML to have multiple objects with the same ID, even if they are in different parts of the page.
You could change your HTML to this:
<div id="div1" >
<input type="text" class="edit1" />
<input type="text" class="edit2" />
</div>
<div id="div2" >
<input type="text" class="edit1" />
<input type="text" class="edit2" />
</div>
Then, you could get the first item in div1 with a CSS selector like this:
#div1 .edit1
On in jQuery:
$("#div1 .edit1")
Or, if you want to iterate the items in one of your divs, you can do it like this:
$("#div1 input").each(function(index) {
// do something with one of the input objects
});
If I couldn't use a framework like jQuery or YUI, I'd go get Sizzle and include that for it's selector logic (it's the same selector engine as is inside of jQuery) because DOM manipulation is massively easier with a good selector library.
If I couldn't use even Sizzle (which would be a massive drop in developer productivity), you could use plain DOM functions to traverse the children of a given element.
You would use DOM functions like childNodes or firstChild and nextSibling and you'd have to check the nodeType to make sure you only got the kind of elements you wanted. I never write code that way because it's so much less productive than using a selector library.
A simple way to do what OP desires in core JS.
document.getElementById(parent.id).children[child.id];
In HTML ids should be unique. I suggest you change your code to something like this:
<div id="div1" >
<input type="text" name="edit1" id="edit1" />
<input type="text" name="edit2" id="edit2" />
</div>
<div id="div2" >
<input type="text" name="edit1" id="edit3" />
<input type="text" name="edit2" id="edit4" />
</div>
Sample Html code
<div id="temp">
F1 <input type="text" value="111"/><br/>
F2 <input type="text" value="222"/><br/>
F3 <input type="text" value="333"/><br/>
Type <select>
<option value="A">A</option>
<option value="B">B</option>
<option value="C">C</option>
</select>
<input type="button" value="Go" onclick="getVal()">
</div>
Javascript
function getVal()
{
var test = document.getElementById("temp").getElementsByTagName("input");
alert("Number of Input Elements "+test.length);
for(var i=0;i<test.length;i++)
{
if(test[i].type=="text")
{
alert(test[i].value);
}
}
test = document.getElementById("temp").getElementsByTagName("select");
alert("Select box "+test[0].options[test[0].selectedIndex].text);
}
By providing different tag names we can get all the values from the div.
Unfortunately this is invalid HTML. An ID has to be unique in the whole HTML file.
When you use Javascript's document.getElementById() it depends on the browser, which element it will return, mostly it's the first with a given ID.
You will have no other chance as to re-assign your IDs, or alternatively using the class attribute.