can same span id display more than 1x?

[revdave]

hi all,

is there a way to have the span id display more than 1x (the 1st shows up but not the next one) without extra javascript document.getElementById('name2***').textContent = "bob";?

html....

1 - the name is <span id="name"></span>

this doesn't show 2nd time

2 - again the name is <span id="name"></span>

<script>

document.getElementById('name').textContent = "bob";

</script>

[Nancy OShea · Accepted solution]

ID = a unique identifyer.  It doesn't matter what it is used on -- div, span, p etc...  It can be used only 1 x per page.  That's absolute & written in stone.

[revdave]

Thanks Nancy - good to know

[Jon Fritz]

HTML ID's can only be used once per page.

Not sure what you're attempting exactly, but maybe this would work better with a class...HTML DOM getElementsByClassName() Method

[Nancy OShea]

Of course that will invoke all of the same classes to fire at the same time; not separately.

Nancy O.

[revdave]

Thanks you Nancy & Jon - very helpful!

[revdave]

Hi Jon - that looks interesting - I'll give it a try