Replacement of .all() function for Browsers other

Question

I am using following code

myEl = document.createElement("myElement") ;
//in a loop
myEl.innerHTML = myEl.innerHTML + currElement.outerHTML ; //some elements getting added to it
var newElement = myEl.all(idToSearch) ;

the last line is not working for browsers other than IE.. I am particularly using Chrome, is there any alternative for it???

Answer 1

all is a proprietary IE extension totally unsupported by standards compliant browsers.

Use document.getElementById() or start looking at libraries like jquery (which would also help with the innerHTML problems you're likely to encounter).

Answer 2

You can use querySelector() on elements that aren't yet attached to the document:

var newElement = myEl.querySelector("#" + idToSearch);