strings..

[Frances Del Rio]

var myform= document.formPricing;
var one = "price";
alert(one);

var amount = myform.one.value;

the alert prints name of element fine, however, on line

var amount = myform.one.value;

I get error 'one.value is null or not an obj'... (and element is not
empty..) I don't get this.. thank you...

[Danny]

Be more precise and specific or paste your relevant code for us to see what
you have.

Danny

[Frances Del Rio]

Frances Del Rio wrote:

var myform= document.formPricing;
var one = "price";
alert(one);

var amount = myform.one.value;

the alert prints name of element fine, however, on line

var amount = myform.one.value;

I get error 'one.value is null or not an obj'... (and element is not
empty..) I don't get this.. thank you...

disregard pls -- had to do:

eval('myform.' + one + '.value');

[Donius]

Without knowing exactly what you're up to, i can't be sure, but for
most every case i've seen, you can do

myform['one'].value

which doesn't rely so heavily on eval, which, while a powerful tool,
isn't always necessary and can often be replaced with something more
mundane if you look for some alternate syntax. :)

-Brendan

[web.dev]

Frances Del Rio wrote:

var myform= document.formPricing;
var one = "price";
alert(one);

var amount = myform.one.value;

the alert prints name of element fine, however, on line

var amount = myform.one.value;

I get error 'one.value is null or not an obj'... (and element is not
empty..) I don't get this.. thank you...

It appears you don't understand how to access form elements.

To do what you wanted to as above then you should've done it like so:

myform.price.value

I prefer to do it this way:

document.forms["form name"].elements["form element name"]

[Michael Winter]

On 27/09/2005 22:52, Donius wrote:

[snip]

myform['one'].value

If one is a variable, which it is supposed to be in the OP, then omit
the quotation marks:

myform[one].value

Mike

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[Randy Webb]

Frances Del Rio said the following on 9/27/2005 5:36 PM:

Frances Del Rio wrote:

var myform= document.formPricing;
var one = "price";
alert(one);

var amount = myform.one.value;

the alert prints name of element fine, however, on line

var amount = myform.one.value;

I get error 'one.value is null or not an obj'... (and element is not
empty..) I don't get this.. thank you...

disregard pls -- had to do:

eval('myform.' + one + '.value');

No, you did not have to do that. eval is *not* needed there. 99% of the
uses of eval (if not higher) on the web is the lack of understanding on
the part of the person who wrote it.

myform[one].value;

Look Ma, No eval!

http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_40

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