find an element by attributes value

SaiPradeep

How can we identify the hiddencontrolid < input id = ctl12443 class = "dropdown" hiddencotrolid = "_topic"?something like this.
could please let me know how to identify the object using the hiddencontrolid?
somehow, I achieved through following code:
var $attrElements = [];
<browser>
function getattributeElement(attribute,value)
{
var allElements = document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for(i=0;i<allElements.length;i++)
{
if (allElements.getAttribute(attribute) == value)
{
return allElements;
}
}
}
</browser>
_set($attrElements,getattributeElement("name","password"));
_highlight($attrElements);
var $b = _accessor($attrElements);
_setValue($b,"secret");

this is very flexible tool which can be used according to user requirement,really great enough,I must say

Pratyush_Tyto

Hi,
You would need a slight change in the 'if' condition in your code.

if (allElements.getAttribute(attribute) == value)
{
return allElements;
}

with

if (allElements[i].getAttribute(attribute) == value)
{
return allElements[i];
}

You need to return the element fulfilling the check condition from the whole array. Hence the "".
So after this change, according to your code,
the element having attribute "name" with value "password" will be returned.

Regards.