[thelist] Forms and getElementById

[Rob Whitener]

I am developing on a windows platform, and the only browser I have right now
is IE 5.5.
I am going to try and change the names of the images.  I thought using the
id property for images and the name property for the elements wouldn't cause
any confusion.

Thanks,

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter-Paul Koch [mailto:gassinaumasis at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:21 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Forms and getElementById




>I am having a difficult time with something that should be simple.  I have
>a form and I have two javascript functions that I want to use to validate
>this form.  One to check the validity of an e-mail address, and one to make
>sure all of the fields have a value.  The problem is, if there is an error
>on the form, I have an image of a red arrow hidden next to each textbox
>which I would like to make visible.  I have set id's for all of the images
>to be the same as the names of the form elements they correspond to.
>However, when I try to use getElementById, I can't get the image tag,

Which browser? IE Windows returns the element with name="test" if you ask
for getElementById('test'). If this problem only comes up in IE Win, change
the names of the images.

I think you should change them anyway, for instance by adding '_img' to the
form field name.

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