How can I remove DOM element using Tag type and not by ID?

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  1. nimesh

    nimesh New Member

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    I'm using ASP.NET gridview, with Sorting, which automatically generated the link for sorting.
    And I want to copy all the data from Gridview to clipboard, except the anchor tags for sorting.

    Currently I'm copying the HTML using outerhtml property, which also brings the anchor tags with it.

    This is the code I used to copy the html content.
    Code:
    javascript:window.clipboardData.setData('Text', document.getElementById('GridView1').outerHTML)
    which now I've modified to a function
    Code:
        function copydata(){
            var obj = document.getElementById('GridView1');
            if (!obj) return false;
            var Elem = obj.getElementsByTagName('a');
            for (var i = 0; i < Elem.length; i++) {
                obj.removeChild(Elem[i]);
            }
            window.clipboardData.setData('Text', obj.outerHTML);
        }
    But the problem is that the function removeChild only works with tag ID and not tag name.

    The HTML that is getting generated does not contain ID in the anchor tags
    Code:
    <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" rules="all" border="1" id="GridView1" style="color:Black;background-color:White;font-family:Arial;font-size:X-Small;border-collapse:collapse;">
    	<tr style="color:White;background-color:#6B696B;font-weight:bold;">
    		<th scope="col"><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1','Sort$SID')" style="color:White;">SID</a></th>
    		<th scope="col"><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1','Sort$SERIAL#')" style="color:White;">SERIAL#</a></th>
    		<th scope="col"><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1','Sort$OSUSER')" style="color:White;">OSUSER</a></th>
    		<th scope="col"><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1','Sort$USERNAME')" style="color:White;">USERNAME</a></th>
    		<th scope="col"><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1','Sort$MACHINE')" style="color:White;">MACHINE</a></th>
    		<th scope="col"><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1','Sort$TERMINAL')" style="color:White;">TERMINAL</a></th>
    		<th scope="col"><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1','Sort$PROGRAM')" style="color:White;">PROGRAM</a></th>
    		<th scope="col"><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1','Sort$STATUS')" style="color:White;">STATUS</a></th>
    		<th scope="col"><a href="javascript:__doPostBack('GridView1','Sort$LOGON_TIME')" style="color:White;">LOGON_TIME</a></th>
    </tr>
    Can anyone help me in doing this? or suggest a better option
     
    Last edited: Jun 18, 2009
  2. nimesh

    nimesh New Member

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    Well... no ones here to answer :)

    I just set it to style.display="none"
     

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