Get all select/option lists start by something

Question

In an HTML page i have severals list.

<select name="salut-1358937506000-OK">
<option selected="" value="OK">OK</option>
<option value="OK">NOK</option>
</select>

<select name="salut-1358937582000-OK">
<option selected="" value="OK">OK</option>
<option value="OK">NOK</option>
</select>
...

In javascript, I want to get all select/option list which started by "salut-". For theses list, i want to compare his name and his selected value.

I know it is possible in jQuery but can't use jquery, only javascript (JSNI with GWT exactly).

Have you an idea?

Thanks!

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '13 at 15:13

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var selects = document.getElementsByTagName('select');
var sel;
var relevantSelects = [];
for(var z=0; z<selects.length; z++){
     sel = selects[z];
     if(sel.name.indexOf('salut-') === 0){
         relevantSelects.push(sel);
     }
}
console.log(relevantSelects);

answered Jan 23 '13 at 15:13

Nirvana Tikku

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Thanks you, i will addapt your code in JSN ($doc for document for example). – superscral Jan 23 '13 at 15:42

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 23 '13 at 15:18

You can use the getElementsByTagName function to get each SELECT name, for example:

var e = document.getElementsByTagName("select");
for (var i = 0; i < e.length; i++){
  var name = e[i].getAttribute("name");
}

Then you can use the following code to get each OPTION for the SELECT, to do any necessary comparisons:

var options = e[i].getElementsByTagName("option")

Get all select/option lists start by something

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