<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Gets elements by tagname</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="domelement.getattributens.html">DOMElement::getAttributeNS</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="domelement.getelementsbytagnamens.html">DOMElement::getElementsByTagNameNS</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.domelement.html">DOMElement</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="domelement.getelementsbytagname" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">DOMElement::getElementsByTagName</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 5, PHP 7)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">DOMElement::getElementsByTagName</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets elements by tagname</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-domelement.getelementsbytagname-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type"><a href="class.domnodelist.html" class="type DOMNodeList">DOMNodeList</a></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>DOMElement::getElementsByTagName</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$name</code></span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> This function returns a new instance of the class <a href="class.domnodelist.html" class="classname">DOMNodeList</a> of all descendant elements with a given tag <code class="parameter">name</code>, in the order in which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of this element tree. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-domelement.getelementsbytagname-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para"> <dl> <dt> <code class="parameter">name</code></dt> <dd> <p class="para"> The tag name. Use <em>*</em> to return all elements within the element tree. </p> </dd> </dl> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-domelement.getelementsbytagname-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> This function returns a new instance of the class <a href="class.domnodelist.html" class="classname">DOMNodeList</a> of all matched elements. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-domelement.getelementsbytagname-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"><span class="methodname"><a href="domelement.getelementsbytagnamens.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">DOMElement::getElementsByTagNameNS()</a> - Get elements by namespaceURI and localName</span></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="domelement.getattributens.html">DOMElement::getAttributeNS</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="domelement.getelementsbytagnamens.html">DOMElement::getElementsByTagNameNS</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.domelement.html">DOMElement</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>