How to select an input element by value using javascript?

Question

I\'ve seen it\'s jquery equivalent:

$(\'input[value=\"something\"]\');

But how do you select it using pure javascript (no jQuery).

Answer 1

Something like this should work...

for(i in document.getElementsByTagName('input')) {
   if(i.value == 'desiredValue') {
      return i;
   }
}

Edit: This will return an array of all matches

var matches = [];
for(i in document.getElementsByTagName('input')) {
   if(i.value == 'desiredValue') {
      matches.push(i);
   }
}