Pocket PC 2003 browser - Javascript getElementsByTagName failing

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vinodbijlani@gmail.com - 30 May 2005 15:30 GMT

Guys,
I want to access all the <div> tags on my page. below is javascript
which is use to access them
var divs=document.getElementsByTagName("div");

this works on IE but is failing on Pocket PC 2003 browser.

any of guys faced this problem..any work arounds?

thanks for the help

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Martin Honnen - 30 May 2005 15:47 GMT

> I want to access all the <div> tags on my page. below is javascript
> which is use to access them
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
> any of guys faced this problem..any work arounds?

I guess
var divs = document.all.tags("div")
will do. But that is just a guess I have no pocket pc here to test.

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vinodbijlani@gmail.com - 30 May 2005 16:53 GMT

thanks Martin.
i got a feeling tht PPC 2003 has different IE version.. checked the
User-Agent & it is IE 4.01..

but still document.all.tags("div") is failing ..tried with CAPS
..fails (this should have worked with IE 4)

will try the id way suggested by VK...

any other suggestions
appreciate the help

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vinodbijlani@gmail.com - 30 May 2005 16:56 GMT

i m just using the emulator
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5c53e3b5-f2a2-47d7-a41d
-825fd68ebb6c&DisplayLang=en

yet to try on real pda ..seems like its goin to be fun

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VK - 30 May 2005 16:43 GMT

On Pocket Internet Explorer you can use only directly addressed div's:

<div id="div1"></div>
and later:
div1.innerHTML = "New content";

You have no evident way to get it by id or from a collection.

Actually all pocket browsers is a fancy mixture of IE 3.0, JavaScript
1.0, some (VERY some) DHTML, a bit of CSS and ALWAYS a pretty good XML
parser.

If you really want to program for PDA's, you have a choice: either use
the forgotten lore of all these tricks for 3rd browsers, or program
directly with XML Island.

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vinodbijlani@gmail.com - 30 May 2005 17:00 GMT

Vk,
these div are built dynamically.
its basically a Question & Answer page (dynamic generation) answers are
radio buttons & checkbox. I need to build the URL to submit the
questions & selected answers for the next page
thanks

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vinodbijlani@gmail.com - 30 May 2005 17:04 GMT

FYI,
even this doesnt work
var e1 = document.all[0];
alert(e1);

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VK - 30 May 2005 20:19 GMT

> even this doesnt work var e1 = document.all[0];

As I told you :-). I have Pocket PC's for 6 year now.

This work though:
...
<div id="que1"></div>
...
que1.innerHTML = newQuestion;

No custom arrays of any kind, sorry (JavaScript 1.0)
You can use native anchors array instead of <div> to hold
question/answers/right answer info:

<a name="Answer1_Answer_2_Answer_3_RightAnswer">Question</a>
and later document.anchors[i].name and string functions to extract the
right part.

Or better to use a data island <xml>data</xml>

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vinodbijlani@gmail.com - 30 May 2005 21:11 GMT

VK
thanks for ur reply.

sorry i m not very conversent with data island. how do i use data
island for user input??
radio button ..check box?? can i?

thanks again

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vinodbijlani@gmail.com - 31 May 2005 02:38 GMT

thanks for the help guys. fixed the problem. below is the javascript .
form.elements works just fine PPC 2003.

var j = 0;
    var radio_buttons = new Array();
    var radio_buttonnames = new Array();

for(var i=0; i<questionForm.length; i++){
    var temp = questionForm.elements[i].type;
    if((temp == "radio") && (questionForm.elements[i].checked)) {
        radio_buttonnames[j] = questionForm.elements[i].name;
        radio_buttons[j] = questionForm.elements[i].value;
        j++;
    }
    }
    alert("created arrays");
    for(var k=0; k<radio_buttons.length; k++){
    qId=radio_buttonnames[k];
    answerId=radio_buttons[k];

queryString=queryString+"responseQuestionId_"+qId+"="+qId+"&responseAnswerId_"+qId+"="+answerId+"&";
    }

    alert(queryString);

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