[Javascript] problem getting the text value of a select box

[Rochester, Dean]

Hi

I am trying to write a reusable if statement that I can check the value of a
select box's text, but I do not know the name of the select box.  I am
walking throught a forms elements and getting the value.  If the element is
a select box, then the   standard   .value  will always be null even if the
select box has text in it.  So in the listing below, towards the bottom the
last if statement is where the problem is.

if (strField == null || strField == "") {

If the element is a select box, this will be true and then I need to get the
option[selectedIndex].text but I do not have the name of the select box.  I
can get the name of the select box, but then I need to put it into the
following command.

document.forms[0].selectName.options[list.selectedIndex].text

where I want to replace selectName with a variable for the name of the
select box.

Here is what I have tried and it does not work.  It tells me that
elements[...] is null

Thanks in advance
Dean-O

-------------------------------------


function editTab(elClass)  {

   var form1 = document.forms[0];
 
  // elClass is the class attribute for all the elements on the current form

   var elemClass = elClass;
   
   
   
   var allTags = form1.getElementsByTagName('*');
   var elements = new Array();

   for (var e = 0; e < allTags.length; e++){
       if (allTags[e].className == elemClass)
          elements[elements.length] = allTags[e];
   }
   
  //get a list of all the tags in the form
  for (var intLoop = 0; intLoop < elements.length; intLoop++) {
      if (elements[intLoop].className == elemClass) {
        // save edit parameters
        strEdit = elements[intLoop].getAttribute('edit');  
        
                                                         
          // if edits, perform them
          if (strEdit != null) { 
              strFldName = elements[intLoop].getAttribute('title') + " (" +
elements[intLoop].getAttribute('name') + ")";  // save field name

                 strField = elements[intLoop].getAttribute('value');  

                 // if the field is a select box the value from the line
above will
                 // be null even if there is a value in the box.
                 // you need the option selected value for the strField
variable
                 if (strField == null || strField == "") {
                     //var ename = elements[intLoop].getAttribute('name');
                     var OptionsList =
elements[intLoop].getAttribute('name');
                     document.writeln("<br>OptionsList = " + OptionsList +
"</br>");
                     strField =
elements[intLoop].[elements[intLoop].getAttribute('name')].options[OptionsLi
st.selectedIndex].text;
                     document.writeln("<br>strField = " + strField +
"</br>");
                     
                 }
          }
    }
}
}