Call the id in JavaScript

Question

I have a span like this:

<span id="selectedTests" class="emrFG">  
  <span id="lblSelectedTests" class="emrHDR" style="top:3;left:6;font-size:8pt;">Selections</span>  
  <span class="emrHDR" style="top:3;left:190;font-size:8pt;">Tests</span>  
  <div id="recordSet" style="top:19;height:112;width:444;"></div>
</span>

The span shows some rows of data and I want to call those rows individually by using document.all method.
How would I do that?

@user: Have a look at [How do I format my code blocks?](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/22186/how-do-i-format-my-code-blocks). — Marcel Korpel, Jun 08 '10 at 22:47
Your CSS (within `style` attributes) is malformed: you have to use a [unit identifier (e.g., px, em, etc.)](http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#value-def-length) when defining `top`, `left`, `height` and `width`. Your HTML is malformed, too: `` elements can only contain inline elements. `
` is a block-level element. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.5.3 — Marcel Korpel, Jun 08 '10 at 22:55

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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document.all is very old, see my answer to another question. Use document.getElementById instead.

Example:

var theElement = document.getElementById("lblSelectedTests");

edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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answered Jun 08 '10 at 22:49

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if I do above var alert(document.getElementById("lblSelectedTests")); it says in alert [Object] – Asim Zaidi Jun 08 '10 at 23:21
@user: Indeed, that's the intended behaviour. You can manipulate your elements this way. – Marcel Korpel Jun 08 '10 at 23:25

Call the id in JavaScript

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