Accessing elements by type in JavaScript

Question

A while ago I was making some test in JavaScript, and played with a code to get the text of all elements with a certain class.

Now I was trying to make something like this but obtain all elements by a certain type, for example all elements type="text"

Is there any way to do this in JavaScript or should I use jQuery?

var xx = document.getElementsByClassName("class"); for (i=0;i<xx.length;i++){     var str=xx[i].innerHTML;             alert(str); } 

Answer 1

If you are lucky and need to care only for recent browsers, you can use:

document.querySelectorAll('input[type=text]') 

"recent" means not IE6 and IE7