Prototype Javascript Framework

descendants(element) -> [HTMLElement...]

Collects all of element’s descendants and returns them as an array of extended elements.

Note that all of Prototype’s DOM traversal methods ignore text nodes and return element nodes only.

Examples

<div id="australopithecus">
  <div id="homo-herectus">
    <div id="homo-neanderthalensis"></div>
    <div id="homo-sapiens"></div>
  </div>
</div>

$('australopithecus').descendants();
// -> [div#homo-herectus, div#homo-neanderthalensis, div#homo-sapiens]

$('homo-sapiens').descendants();
// -> []