AW: AW: [Javascript] checkboxes in array

[Roger Roelofs]

Michael,

On Apr 4, 2005, at 3:50 AM, Michael Borchers wrote:

>
>       <input type="checkbox" name="typ[]" value="S06-001"  
> style="border:none; ">
>       <input type="text" name="stck[]" style="width:50px; " value="0"  
> onFocus="this.value=''; 
> document.getElementsByName('typ[]').checked=true">
>
> I need to have it without certain IDs or names, just arrays []

I'm guessing you're coming from a server side language like php where  
arrays use square brackets.  Unfortunately javascript uses square  
brackets too.  To get around this use the forms elements array.  Here  
is a quote from the php web site  
<http://us2.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.arrays>

---------------------
  Note that if you are using JavaScript the []  on the element name  
might cause you problems when you try to refer to the element by name.  
Use it's numerical form element ID instead, or enclose the variable  
name in single quotes and use that as the index to the elements array,  
for example:

variable = documents.forms[0].elements['var[]'];
---------------------

I guess the main point is you can't do it the old way of  
document.formname.typ[] because javascript willl assume you are  
referencing an array rather than a form element.  Also, 'variable' will  
be an array of form elements if more than one has the same name.

getElementsByName tends to be a bit buggy  
<http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/w3c_core.html>, so it will only work for  
input elements, and images.

hth,

Roger
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