[Javascript] Form with array like structure

Steve Clason stevec at topdogstrategy.com
Sun Jul 23 16:27:01 CDT 2006


Peter Lauri wrote:

> I have a form that looks something like this:
> 
> <form>
> <input type="text" name="thename[]"/>
> <input type="text" name="thename[]"/>
> <input type="text" name="thename[]"/>
> </form>
> 
> In regular case, I can use document.getElementByName("thename").value to
> check the value of it, but how do I do now when one name has several. In PHP
> it is treated as an array, but how can I look thru this with JavaScript?

document.getElementsByTagName("input") will get you an array of input 
elements and you can loop through them looking for what you need.

I hope that helps some.

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Steve Clason
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