Targeting multiple subforms with a shared name throughout a form

Question

Hi
I've found a few hints at this online, but to date with little detail as to successful methods.
Has anyone had any success with targeting subforms that have the same name throughout a form? The intention is to hide or disable the contents of those subforms by using a script.
These subforms are numerous and at various locations throughout the form, so I'm trying to find a way to use the common name to target all of these at once, as opposed to specifying absolute locations for all of these subforms. By means of comparison, what comes to mind is how classes can be used in CSS to target multiple elements. My initial thought is something along the lines of getElements, although I've hit a bit of a brick wall so far!
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

Answer 1

You could do it by nesting functions. I'd make a script object to store the functions and then call them from there.
So you'd have a function to find the subforms, a function to target the fields, etc. Then when you've found your subform you call another function to go through the subform and do what you need to the fields.
I haven't tested it but I'm pretty sure with Radzmar's function you can target individual subforms, etc. For example the line that calls the the function below, hideSubs(xfa.form), could target specific form like hideSubs(form1.subform1.subform2).
This is very pseudocode-y, I haven't bothered changing the name of the function. The colourFields function would look kinda like the hideSubs function but target fields instead of subforms. I don't have time to figure it out right now but might be able to take a look at it this weekend.
function hideSubs(vNode) {
     if (vNode.className === "subform") {
          //name of subform you're targeting
          if (vNode.name === "targetSub") {
               //call function colourFields
               colourFields(targetSub);
     for (var i = 0; i < vNode.nodes.length; i += 1) {
          hideSubs(vNode.nodes.item(i));
hideSubs(xfa.form);