nextSibling issue, should be simple

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Published on 2010-05-24T22:00:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 22:11 UTC
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Ok, I'm trying to come to grips with this nextSibling function in JS. Here's my issue within the following code...

var fromRow = document.getElementById("row_1");

while(fromRow.nodeType == 1 && fromRow.nextSibling != null)
{
    var fRowId = fromRow.id;
    if (!fRowId) continue;

    // THIS ONLY gets done once and alerts "row_1" ONLY :(
    alert(fRowId);

    fromRow = fromRow.nextSibling;
}

Ok can someone please tell me what is wrong with this code? There are siblings next to this document.getElementById("row_1"); element for sure as I can see them, and they all have id attributes, so why is it not getting the id attributes of the siblings?? I don't get it.

row_1 is a TR element, and I need to get the TR elements next to it within this table, but for some reason, it only gets the 1 element that I can already get using document.getElementById, arggg.

Thanks guys :)

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