[thelist] Newbie DOM question

[Christian Heilmann]

> I'm looking to set the value="" of any input elements with an
> attribute/value pair of  type="text" to "foo".
>
> Here's what I've got:
>
> var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
> var inputType = inputs[i].getAttribute("type");
>
>              for (var i=0; i< inputs.length; i++) {
>                  if (inputType[i].nodeValue = "text") {
>                     inputs[i].setAttribute("value", "foo");
>                     }
>                  }
>
> With this script, the value of every input on my page is being set to
> "foo".  The conditional seems to be the problem, but I can't figure out why.

		var fields=document.getElementsByTagName('input');
		for(var i=0;i<fields.length;i++){
			if(fields[i].type==='text'){
				fields[i].value='foo';
			}
		}

You read an attribute, not a node, therefore nodeValue doesn't apply.

You can of course also use the get and setAttribute methods:		

var fields=document.getElementsByTagName('input');
		for(var i=0;i<fields.length;i++){
			if(fields[i].getAttribute('type')==='text'){
				fields[i].setAttribute('value','foo');
			}
		}

HTH
Chris


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