What I'm trying to do is something like this:
var textareas = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea");
var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
var selects = document.getElementsByTagName("select");
var concatenated = textareas.concat(inputs).concat(selects);
for(var i = 0; i < concatenated.length; i++) {
//Do something on each concatenated[i] item
}
How about using 1 queryselector
<textarea value= "The DOM is very useful." />
<input class="intro" value='This example demonstrates the method' />
<script>
var z = document.querySelectorAll("input, textarea");
//now z has input and textarea
for(i=0;i<z.length;i++)
{
alert( z[i]);
}
</script>