[thelist] [javascript] getElementById

[.jeff]

hi,

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> From: S.tygian B.lacksmith S.tudios
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> Anyway, to amend my earlier post: technically, you don't
> have to access the option child's value like I stated.
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true.  you can just not access them at all.  sure makes for having to write a lot less lines of code.

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> It depends on whether or not you want to rely on the DOM
> level-whatever HTML compatibility functions.
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no, it actually depends on whether or not you want to support the browsers that haven't implemented the hack of a value property for a select object.

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> The way that I suggested is more along the lines of
> strict DOM coding - but you can also access it using
> the value property of the select element (compatibility
> style).
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you can only use this technique in some browsers.  oh, i suppose you could get fancy and build a custom value() method on the select object that'd return the value of the selected option, but why when you could just be accessing that information the right way.

.jeff

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