JavaScript getElementByName doesn't work

It's getElementsByName . Note the plural. It returns an array-like NodeList of elements with that name attribute.


getElementsByName exists, which returns a collection of the elements. If you plan to find only one:

document.getElementsByName("hi")[0].setAttribute("value", "my value is high");

Edit: a, HTML there (didn't see that before the edit). No 'hi' element in HTML, possibly in some XML format there is...


not getElementByName but getElementsByName, and it returns array.

<html>
<head>
    <script language="javascript">
        function fn() {
            document.getElementById("para").setAttribute("name","hi");
            x = document.getElementsByName("hi");
            x[0].setAttribute("value","my value is high");
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body onload="fn()">
    <input type="text" id="para" />
</body>
</html>

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