Why doesn't a SELECT element's innerHTML reflected which option was
selected? Works in IE. I need this functionality so that I can retain
what choices a user made in a tabbed interface.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dt d">
<html xmlns="http://w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<script language="javas cript">
function callAlert(){
var theHTML = document.getEle mentById('Radiu s').innerHTML;
//alert(theHTML);
}
</script>
<title>Untitl ed Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="myForm">
<div id="myDiv">
<table border="0" width="430" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" >
<tr>
<td font color="#ff0000" >*</font>Radius:</td>
<td width="331" height="30" class="formData ">
<select onChange="callA lert();" id="Radius" name="Radius">
<option value=".10" id="0">1/10 mile</option>
<option value=".20">1/5 mile</option>
<option value=".25">1/4 mile</option>
<option value=".5">1/2 mile</option>
<option value=".75">3/4 mile</option>
<option value="1">1 mile</option>
</select>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html> 24  3507 
On 10/07/2005 23:20, bedhead wrote: Why doesn't a SELECT element's innerHTML reflected which option was
selected?
The selected attribute refers to pre-selection, not whether the element
is currently selected. Markup is static and doesn't change in response
to user actions.
I need this functionality so that I can retain what choices a user
made in a tabbed interface.
Read the values from object properties and reassign them later.
[snip]
Mike
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Michael Winter
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bedhead wrote: Why doesn't a SELECT element's innerHTML reflected which option was
selected? Works in IE. I need this functionality so that I can retain
what choices a user made in a tabbed interface.
What are you looking for? The option's value, the option's text or the
option's selected index?
[...]
<script language="javas cript">
function callAlert(){
var theHTML = document.getEle mentById('Radiu s').innerHTML;
//alert(theHTML);
}
</script>
Why not pass the select object to the callAlert function?
<script type="text/javascript">
function callAlert(menu) {
alert(menu.opti ons[menu.selectedIn dex].value);
alert(menu.opti ons[menu.selectedIn dex].text);
alert(menu.sele ctedIndex);
}
</script>
<select onChange="callA lert(this);" id="Radius" name="Radius">
Help?
[...]
Mick
bedhead <ms***@consults haw.com> wrote in message news:11******** **************@ g43g2000cwa.goo glegroups.com.. . Why doesn't a SELECT element's innerHTML reflected which option was
selected? Works in IE. I need this functionality so that I can retain
what choices a user made in a tabbed interface. http://jibbering.com/FAQ/#FAQ4_13
Using the above technique, assign your form a NAME not an ID. Reading form elements does not involve
document.getEle mentById or .innerHTML. Please tell all your friends and ask them to tell all their friends etc.
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Stephen Chalmers
"Stephen Chalmers" <ig******@lycos .co.uk> writes: http://jibbering.com/FAQ/#FAQ4_13
Using the above technique, assign your form a NAME not an ID.
I assume you refer to "id" and "name" attributes, but capitalizing
risks confuzing with HTML data types ID and NAME
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html>.
Anyway, give it an "id" attribute, not a name attribute, if you are
writing HTML 4 or later. The "name" attribute is not valid on form
elements at all. The only reason for using the "name" attribute is to
be compatible with Netscape 4 or its contemporaries, and in that case,
you should still use the valid "id" attribute with the same name.
The W3C DOM 2 HTML says that the forms collection (an
HTMLNodeCollect ion) can be indexed using the elements names or id's,
so using an "id" attribute still works.
/L
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DHTML Death Colors: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/rasterTriangleD OM.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'
Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote: The "name" attribute is not valid on form
elements at all. The only reason for using the "name" attribute is to
be compatible with Netscape 4 or its contemporaries, and in that case,
you should still use the valid "id" attribute with the same name.
1) name attributes on form tags certainly is valid html 4.01.
2) Multiple forms can have the same name, but multiple forms may not have
the same id. In some cases, this might be an important fact.
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Matt Kruse http://www.JavascriptToolbox.com http://www.AjaxToolbox.com
On 11/07/2005 01:06, Matt Kruse wrote: Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:
The "name" attribute is not valid on form elements at all. The only
reason for using the "name" attribute is to be compatible with
Netscape 4 or its contemporaries, and in that case, you should
still use the valid "id" attribute with the same name.
1) name attributes on form tags certainly is valid html 4.01.
Correct. They're also valid in XHTML 1.0 Transitional (but not Strict).
2) Multiple forms can have the same name [...]
No. The name and id attributes share the same namespace for most
elements. The uniqueness constraint applies equally when using either
attribute with a FORM element, as well as A, APPLET, FRAME, IFRAME, IMG
and MAP elements. See a few paragraphs into section 12.2.3 - Anchors
with the id attribute.
Mike
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Michael Winter
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Thanks for all the replies. Sorry for the confusion. This is just a
small example. I am getting the innerHTML of a DIV tag which
encompasses a very large form. I didn't want to get all the selected
indexes, checked, etc... of all elements in the form and restore them
later.
IE actually changes the innerHTML of the DIV to reflect what the user
selected. So, if you save the innerHTML you have their choices. I
would like to do a similar thing in FireFox if available.
Does innerHTML have similar functionality in FireFox? If not, is
saving all the current choices the only way to accomplish this?
Thanks
"Matt Kruse" <ne********@mat tkruse.com> writes: 1) name attributes on form tags certainly is valid html 4.01.
So it is! It was just HTML 4.0 where it wasn't. It's not incorrect that
it's for compatability with old browsers though, as they say:
---
name = cdata [CI]
This attribute names the element so that it may be referred to from
style sheets or scripts. Note. This attribute has been included for
backwards compatibility. Applications should use the id attribute to
identify elements.
---
For style sheets, they have to mean using the [name="something "]
selector which IE still doesn't support (like most CSS2).
2) Multiple forms can have the same name, but multiple forms may not have
the same id. In some cases, this might be an important fact.
And whenever a form has both an id and a name, it must be the same :)
I fail to see an application where multiple forms with the same
element is the best way to do anything, but it is allowed.
/L 'just use "id"!'
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Lasse Reichstein Nielsen - lr*@hotpop.com
DHTML Death Colors: <URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/rasterTriangleD OM.html>
'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'
bedhead wrote: Thanks for all the replies. Sorry for the confusion. This is just a
small example. I am getting the innerHTML of a DIV tag which
encompasses a very large form. I didn't want to get all the selected
indexes, checked, etc... of all elements in the form and restore them
later.
IE actually changes the innerHTML of the DIV to reflect what the user
selected. So, if you save the innerHTML you have their choices. I
would like to do a similar thing in FireFox if available.
Does innerHTML have similar functionality in FireFox?
No. Given that 'innerHTML' is not a public standard nor fully
documented anywhere, whatever behaviour it has is what it has. As it is
a Microsoft invention, you could argue that any browser that doesn't do
what IE does has a faulty implementation.
But IE's version has its own problems: if you serialise the select
element with the user's currently selected options as 'selected', you
will need to code your own reset button as the original defaults are gone.
If you restore the page with the previously selected options being set
as 'selected' in the HTML, you will have the same problem however you
implement it - you will have to provide your own reset button.
If not, is
saving all the current choices the only way to accomplish this?
Why not use display: none for non-selected tabs? The content stays in
the page and there are no issues with restoring forms. If you do the
layout right, with JavaScript disabled the tabs should just appear one
above the other and have anchors to navigate between them. With JS
enabled, they behave like tabs - hiding and showing the relevant bits.
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