Javascript accessing div contents

[Dude0]

Hello,

how can javascript access the contents of a div so their properties can be changed?

For example acessing the list of tags within a div tag like:

<div id="flist">
 <a href="#" onClick="dot(flist)">stuff</a>
</div>

<div id="olist">
 <a href="#" onClick="dot(olist)">stuff</a>
</div>

Here's the current code that doesn't work

function dot(container_id) {

var container = document.getElementById (container_id);

var list = document.getElementById (container_id).childNodes;


}

Errors:

Warning: Non-standard Global Element reference was used. Use W3C standard document.getElementById() instead.

Error: document.getElementById(container_id) has no properties

Line: 8

Thanks for you rcomments.

[Dude0]

Fixed using

document.getElementById (container_id.id);

instead of

var container = document.getElementById (container_id);

It passes the object and not the string.

Thank.

[Weedpacket]

Or you could pass the expected string

 <a href="#" onClick="dot('flist')">stuff</a>

instead of

 <a href="#" onClick="dot(flist)">stuff</a>

And is there any particular reason you're not using container.childNodes, seeing as container contains the element you want the child nodes of?