unable to do an alert for a radio button value

yawnmoth

I'm trying to display a popup showing which radio button is selected
and am unable to do so. Every time I try, I get undefined, instead of
the value of the particular form variable I'm trying to get. Here's my
code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="">
<input type="radio" name="testvar" value="1"
checked="checke d">option # 1<br>
<input type="radio" name="testvar" value="2">optio n # 2<br>
<input type="radio" name="testvar" value="3">optio n # 3<br>
</form>
<br>
<a href="#" onclick="alert( document.forms[0].testvar.value) ; return
false">click me</a>
</body>
</html>

If I just use the default selections, it seems like I should be getting
an alert that says "1", but I'm not. I'm getting an alert that says
"undefined" and I don't know why. Any ideas would be appreciated -
thanks!

Oct 19 '06 #1

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nutso fasst

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<a href="#" onclick="for(va r i=0; !document.forms[0].testvar[i]; i++){};
alert(document. forms[0].testvar[i].value); return false">click me</a>

Oct 19 '06 #2

yawnmoth

yawnmoth wrote:

I'm trying to display a popup showing which radio button is selected
and am unable to do so. Every time I try, I get undefined, instead of
the value of the particular form variable I'm trying to get. Here's my
code:

<snip>

If I just use the default selections, it seems like I should be getting
an alert that says "1", but I'm not. I'm getting an alert that says
"undefined" and I don't know why. Any ideas would be appreciated -
thanks!

This problem appears to be exclusive to radio buttons since the onclick
event in the anchor tag works just fine in this example (the only thing
that's changed is what testvar is):

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="">
<input type="hidden" name="testvar" value="1">
</form>
<br>
<a href="#" onclick="alert( document.forms[0].testvar.value) ; return
false">click me</a>
</body>
</html>

Any ideas?

Oct 19 '06 #3

yawnmoth

nutso fasst wrote:

"yawnmoth" <te*******@yaho o.comwrote in message
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<a href="#" onclick="for(va r i=0; !document.forms[0].testvar[i]; i++){};
alert(document. forms[0].testvar[i].value); return false">click me</a>

Hmmm - I guess we posted at the same time. Anyway, that seems to do it
- thanks!

Oct 19 '06 #4

nutso fasst

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>
nutso fasst wrote:
"yawnmoth" <te*******@yaho o.comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ e3g2000cwe.goog legroups.com...

<a href="#" onclick="for(va r i=0; !document.forms[0].testvar[i]; i++){};
alert(document. forms[0].testvar[i].value); return false">click me</a>
Hmmm - I guess we posted at the same time. Anyway, that seems to do it

Oops. Actually, it won't do it because I left out the checked property in
the test. I meant to type:

<a href="#" onclick="for(va r i=0; !document.forms[0].testvar[i].checked;
i++){};
alert(document. forms[0].testvar[i].value); return false">click me</a>

But even that is a bit dangerous. Prolly should be:

<a href="#" onclick="for(va r i=0; !document.forms[0].testvar[i].checked && i
< document.forms[0].testvar.length ; i++){};
alert(document. forms[0].testvar[i].value); return false">click me</a>
SORRY!

nf

Oct 20 '06 #5

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