Posted by David Dorward on 10/09/08 11:54

bradley_d_watkins@hotmail.com wrote:

> Is there any way of accessing the tables appearing on a web-page that
> would return an array of their ID's in an array type form?
> I have to hide some of their rows, but dont know what their ID's are!!

document.getElementsByTagName('table') will return a collection of HTML
elements. No need to deal with ids.

> The problem is that i have to access a dynamically changing web page
> and have to know the tables ID's. However the trick comes in when none
> of the tables were given ID's.

You can't get an id from an element that doesn't have an id.

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