[thelist] javascript and form fields with numeric ID/name
Matt Warden
mwarden at gmail.com
Thu Dec 2 12:59:04 CST 2004
Joel,
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 10:36:41 -0800, Joel D Canfield <joel at spinhead.com> wrote:
> Does javascript choke on a field id/name which begins with a numeric
> character? (like 010010CompanyName)
>
> If so, is there an workaround? Really wanted to be able to sort/group
> using the field id on the back end
well, you could always just prepend the id with a character. If the
character is the same, it won't affect sorting:
a010010CompanyName
a011010CompanyName
etc.
also, have you tried accessing the form element by the elements array?
document.forms[0].elements['010010CompanyName'].value
etc.
?
hth,
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Matt Warden
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