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value of element by id from variable

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:40 am
by newbie85
To get value of element by id from document is very easy:
var example = document.getElementById('myId');

But what if I would like to get value by id myId from the variable:

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var example1 ='<div><span>sdf</span><a href="example.html" id="myId">lorem ipsum</a></div>'
Is there any way?

Re: value of element by id from variable

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:19 pm
by Reviresco

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var example1 ='<div><span>sdf</span><a href="example.html" id="myId">lorem ipsum</a></div>':
var split1 = example1.split('id="');
var split2 = split1[1].split('"');
var the_id = split2[0];
alert(the_id);