How to get all childNodes in JS including all the 'grandchildren'?
I want to scan a div for all childNodes including the ones that are nestled within other elements. Right now I have this:
var t = document.getElementById('DivId').childNodes;
for(i=0; i<t.length; i++) alert(t[i].id);
But it only gets the children of the Div and not the grandchildren. Thanks!
Edit: This question was too vague. Sorry about that. Here's a fiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/F6L2B/
The body.onload script doesn't run at JSFiddle, but it works, except that the 'Me Second' and 'Me Third' input fields are not being assigned a tabIndex and are therefore being skipped over.
Solution 1:
This is the fastest and simplest way, and it works on all browsers:
myDiv.getElementsByTagName("*")
Solution 2:
If you're looking for all HTMLElement
on modern browsers you can use:
myDiv.querySelectorAll("*")
Solution 3:
What about great-grandchildren?
To go arbitrarily deep, you could use a recursive function.
var alldescendants = [];
var t = document.getElementById('DivId').childNodes;
for(let i = 0; i < t.length; i++)
if (t[i].nodeType == 1)
recurseAndAdd(t[i], alldescendants);
function recurseAndAdd(el, descendants) {
descendants.push(el.id);
var children = el.childNodes;
for(let i=0; i < children.length; i++) {
if (children[i].nodeType == 1) {
recurseAndAdd(children[i]);
}
}
}
If you really only want grandchildren, then you could take out the recursion (and probably rename the function)
function recurseAndAdd(el, descendants) {
descendants.push(el.id);
var children = el.childNodes;
for(i=0; i < children.length; i++) {
if (children[i].nodeType == 1) {
descendants.push(children[i].id);
}
}
}