What's the best way to loop through a set of elements in JavaScript?

Question

In the past and with most my current projects I tend to use a for loop like this:

var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(\'div\');
for (var i=0; i

        

Answer 1

I too advise to use the simple way (KISS !-)

-- but some optimization could be found, namely not to test the length of an array more than once:

var elements = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
for (var i=0, im=elements.length; im>i; i++) {
    doSomething(elements[i]);
}