[thelist] javascript and form fields with numeric ID/name
Simon Perry
thelist at si-designs.co.uk
Thu Dec 2 13:23:10 CST 2004
Joel D Canfield 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
>
>Finally, what on earth would you google up to find the answer to this
>seemingly basic question? I've spent half an hour in a fruitless attempt
>to answer this for myself.
>
>
>
This is a DOM problem not really javascript at all. A document id may
not start with a number, hyphen or underscore [0] so your above example
the field / id name is invalid and causing your woes.
I'm not really sure what sorting or manipulation you are trying to
achieve but you could add a letter before your string and strip it out
in your sort function. But that sounds like a bit of a kludge... hard to
know without more detail.
As for google sometimes it is a lot easier when you know the answer ;-)
Simon
[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#q4
http://www.w3.org/Style/css2-updates/REC-CSS2-19980512-errata.html#x3
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