document.forms[0] and Struts (tags)

[Jan-Friedrich Mutter]

Hi,

I have a problem to access a hidden field by javascript. The name of
the field has a dot in it. That's the problem. But I need that dot
because it is a "Stuts Property".
I'm using IE 6. This is my code:

<!--
function changeValue(myv alue) {
//works
document.forms[0].testProperty.v alue = myvalue;
alert('document .forms[0].testProperty.v alue='+document .forms[0].testProperty.v alue);
//doesn't work
//(javascript error:
//document.forms[0].dotted.prop is null or not an object)
document.forms[0].dotted.prop.va lue = myvalue;
alert('document .forms[0].dotted.prop.va lue='+document. forms[0].testProperty.v alue);
}
//-->

<form>
<input type="hidden" name="testPrope rty" value="">
<input type="hidden" name="dotted.pr op" value="">
</form>

Any comments are appreciated.

Cheers,
Jan.

[Tor Iver Wilhelmsen]

jm*****@bigfoot .de (Jan-Friedrich Mutter) writes:

document.forms[0].dotted.prop.va lue = myvalue;
alert('document .forms[0].dotted.prop.va lue='+document. forms[0].testProperty.v alue);

Use getElementById( 'dotted.prop')

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

jm*****@bigfoot .de (Jan-Friedrich Mutter) writes:

I have a problem to access a hidden field by javascript. The name of
the field has a dot in it. That's the problem. But I need that dot
because it is a "Stuts Property".
It is illegal HTML, so you should check again whether it is *really*
necessary.
document.forms[0].dotted.prop.va lue = myvalue;

How to access properties with illegal names:
<URL:http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_25>
I.e.,
document.forms[0].elements["dotted.pro p"].value

/L
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[Richard Cornford]

"Tor Iver Wilhelmsen" <to************ *****@broadpark .no> wrote in
message news:ul******** ***@broadpark.n o...
<snip>

Use getElementById( 'dotted.prop')

Do not use getElementById to access form elements with JavaScript. Use
the W3C HTML DOM level 2 specified document.forms collection to access
the form and access the element as either a named or indexed property of
either the form or the form's elements collection:-

document.forms[nameOrIndex].elements[nameOrIndex];

- complies with the latest W3C specification and is back-compatible with
_every_ JavaScript capable browser currently in use.

Richard.

[Chris Smith]

Jan-Friedrich Mutter wrote:

I have a problem to access a hidden field by javascript. The name of
the field has a dot in it. That's the problem. But I need that dot
because it is a "Stuts Property".
In general, it's best not to post JavaScript questions to
comp.lang.java. * groups. Java and JavaScript are not the same.
Followups are set.
I'm using IE 6. This is my code:

<!--
function changeValue(myv alue) {
//works
document.forms[0].testProperty.v alue = myvalue;
alert('document .forms[0].testProperty.v alue='+document .forms[0].testProperty.v alue);
//doesn't work
//(javascript error:
//document.forms[0].dotted.prop is null or not an object)
document.forms[0].dotted.prop.va lue = myvalue;
alert('document .forms[0].dotted.prop.va lue='+document. forms[0].testProperty.v alue);
}
//-->

Try:

(document.forms[0])["dotted.pro p"].value = myvalue;

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