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November 19, 2000 Counting Elements in a Document Tips: November 2000
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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Suppose you need to know how many DIV elements there are on the page. In Netscape Navigator, the number of layers is document.layers.length. It is not that trivial in Internet Explorer.
You need to use the
To find the total number of DIV elements, just use divArrary.length. For example, click this link from within Internet Explorer to compute and echo the number of FONT elements in this tip. We just put the following line in the JavaScript section at the top of this page:
And the link above is assembled as:
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