CIS 119 - Choosing page elements by tag name

Objectives

• select and modify page elements with a specific tag name

document.getElementsByTagName

• you can use a loop to access all of the elements selected using getElementsByTagName
• see onclick3.html for an example of using document.getElementsByTagName
• libraries such as jQuery greatly expand the ability to specify sets of elements
• libraries such as jQuery greatly expand the ability to work with sets of elements