HOW to get the parent of text field in a table

[Sergio Otoya]

Hi all,

I need to access the <TR> element where an input text field is hosted.
I would like to do this client side as i need to hide the TR based on
certain conditions.

The HTML is already written and cannot get to the source because it is
a server side page that we don't have acess to, but we can include
certain javascript snippets.

So the HTML looks something like this by the time i can execute my
javascript function:

<TABLE>
<TR>
<TH nowrap valign="top" class="ms-formlabel"><nobr>Name<font
color="red"> *</font></nobr></TH>
<TD class="ms-formbody"><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="somefield"
id="idFilename" >
</TD>
</TR>
....

</TABLE>
So the element that i can get to is idFilename but need to hide the
whole TR row based on certain conditions.

Question: is it possible to do that?. can I use some sort of
parentNode or container method to get to the TR?

I would greatly appreciate any help.

thanks in advance.

Sergio

[Michael Winter]

On 2 Nov 2004 01:15:30 -0800, Sergio Otoya <se****@winapp.com.au> wrote:

I need to access the <TR> element where an input text field is hosted.
[snip]
Question: is it possible to do that?. can I use some sort of parentNode
or container method to get to the TR?

Yes, use the parentNode property:

var cell, row;

if((cell = inputRef.parentNode) && (row = cell.parentNode)) {
// row now refers to the parent row of the element, inputRef
}

The best way to get inputRef depends upon how the code is called.

[snip]

Hope that helps,
Mike

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[Sergio Otoya]

Mike,

Thanks very much for your response. It works perfectly.

Sergio.

"Michael Winter" <M.******@blueyonder.co.invalid> wrote in message news:<opsgt6qyiyx13kvk@atlantis>...

On 2 Nov 2004 01:15:30 -0800, Sergio Otoya <se****@winapp.com.au> wrote:

I need to access the <TR> element where an input text field is hosted.

[snip]

Question: is it possible to do that?. can I use some sort of parentNode
or container method to get to the TR?

Yes, use the parentNode property:

var cell, row;

if((cell = inputRef.parentNode) && (row = cell.parentNode)) {
// row now refers to the parent row of the element, inputRef
}

The best way to get inputRef depends upon how the code is called.

[snip]

Hope that helps,
Mike