getElementByID

[Drakath]

I have two elements with the same ID. As stated in wiki it only returns the first element. Is there a way to retrieve the second element?

[Den.]

Read the function's arguments on the wiki. You can specify the index of the element you want to retrieve.

getElementByID(element, 1) 

You can also get all elements who have the same type and same ID, and put them in a table.

  
function getElementsByID(etype, id) 
    if etype and id then 
        local elements = getElementsByType(etype) 
        local result = {} 
        for key, element in ipairs(elements) do 
            if getElementID(element) == id then 
                table.insert(result, element) 
            end 
        end 
        return result 
    end 
    return false 
end 
  

[Drakath]

Thanks.