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Created November 6, 2012 19:00
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Dustin Diaz's get element by class JS function
/*
taken from http://www.dustindiaz.com/top-ten-javascript
*/
function getElementsByClass(searchClass,node,tag) {
var classElements = new Array();
if ( node == null )
node = document;
if ( tag == null )
tag = '*';
var els = node.getElementsByTagName(tag);
var elsLen = els.length;
var pattern = new RegExp('(^|\\\\s)'+searchClass+'(\\\\s|$)');
for (i = 0, j = 0; i < elsLen; i++) {
if ( pattern.test(els[i].className) ) {
classElements[j] = els[i];
j++;
}
}
return classElements;
}
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