HOW??? - Loop through <div> elements on page

On one of my pages I used javascript to run through each checkbox element on the page and based on the value attribute it would disable or enable it.
Sort of like this :

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for(var i=0; i<document.formname.elements.length; i++) {
    if(document.formname.elements[i].value == "bluecheckbox") {
       if(document.formname.elements[i].disabled == true) {
         //enable it
      }
   }//outer if
}//for

<div>'s can't be accessed in a way similar to my code snippet above.

What javascript code do I use to loop through the <div>'s? I only want to hide the <div>'s that have their id attribute set to a specific set of letter's...how can I do that?

Edited at 3:24 p.m....Reason - Problem Solved!
I did some googling, then some testing, and arrived at the following code, which takes care of my issue, so here it is for everyone else too!

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var divs = document.getElementsByTagName('div');
for (var i = 0; i < divs.length; i++){                      
      var divname = divs[i].id; 
      if(divname.indexOf("sometext") == 0) { 
        //yes it is, do something
      }//if
}//for

Woo go you!!

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