[Javascript] javascript and id's

[Anthony Ettinger]

Yes, you can. But it's my understanding that method is
quickly becoming obsolete, infavor of 

var object = document.getElementById('foo');





--- Flavio Gomes <flavio at economisa.com.br> wrote:

> 
> Having a form named* "myForm" and an input named
> "myInput":
>  You can access it by "document.myForm.myInput" in
> the majority of the 
> browsers.
> 
> * Yeah, by "named" I mean giving the "name" atribute
> a value.
> 
> <form name=myForm action=processStuff.html>
>   <input type=text name=myInput value="Enter Text"
> />
>   <input type=submit name=mySubmit value="Go" />
> </form>
> 
> <script language="JavaScript">
>   alert(document.myForm.myInput.value);
> 
>   document.myForm.myInput.onkeydown = function ()
> {window.status=this.value}
> </script>
> 
> -- 
> Flavio Gomes
> flavio at economisa.com.br
> 
> 
> 
> Anthony Ettinger wrote:
> 
> >Ok, so I have a <form id="foo">
> >
> >Is this the best way to access descendents of
> <form>?
> >By keying off the ancestor, and then looping
> through
> >it's elements?
> >
> >Or should I give each form element it's own id...
> >
> >I want to change the value of an attribute of an
> input
> >field:
> >
> ><input type="text" name="foo">
> >
> >want to change it to 
> >
> ><input type="text" name="bar">
> >
> >
> >What I ended up doing was giving the <input>
> element
> >an id="searchfield", and then looping through it's
> >attributes using '.attributes' on the input object,
> >and testing the name of the attribute == 'name'.
> and
> >then replacing it's value with 'bar'.
> >
> >Is there an easier way to access an attribute of an
> >element if I know it's direct path?
> >
> >Seems to me very inefficient to have to do looping
> if
> >it's not necessary.
> >
> >Anthony Ettinger
> >ph: (408) 656-2473
> >blog: http://www.chovy.com
> >
> >
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Anthony Ettinger
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