adding a field value to a var causes a NaN in Explorer

[kaston3]

var totalpoints=0;

for (counter=1;....){

myvalue=parseFloat(document.forms["myform"].elements[counter].value);
totalpoints+=myvalue

//the fields in elements[] are always numbers

}

In Internet Explorer the field numbers are not added while in Mozilla
everything works ok.

// I tried eval and parseint

Thanks

[Mick White]

kaston3 wrote:

var totalpoints=0;

for (counter=1;....){

myvalue=parseFloat(document.forms["myform"].elements[counter].value);
totalpoints+=myvalue

//the fields in elements[] are always numbers

}

In Internet Explorer the field numbers are not added while in Mozilla
everything works ok.

Try some troubleshooting
myvalue=parseFloat(document.forms["myform"].elements[counter].value,10);
if(isNaN(myvalue)){alert(myvalue+" is not a number");continue;}
if(!myvalue)){alert("Empty");continue;}

totalpoints+=myvalue

Mick

[Lee]

kaston3 said:

var totalpoints=0;

for (counter=1;....){

myvalue=parseFloat(document.forms["myform"].elements[counter].value);
totalpoints+=myvalue

//the fields in elements[] are always numbers

}

In Internet Explorer the field numbers are not added while in Mozilla
everything works ok.

Are you sure everything works ok in Mozilla? Is the value of the
first form element included? I'm thinking that the rest of the
line that you replaced with "...." may be important to identifying
your problem.

Since you're taking the extra step of storing the field value in
a temporary variable, adding:
alert("counter="+counter+"\myvalue="+myvalue);
should be one of the very first steps in debugging this problem.

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <vs*******************@twister.nyroc.rr.com>, dated
Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:00:43, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript, Mick White
<mw***********@rochester.rr.com> posted :

myvalue=parseFloat(document.forms["myform"].elements[counter].value,10);

,10 // ???

IMHO, parseFloat should only be used if the number part of the string
may have training characters; and parseInt only then or if the second
parameter may not be 10. Unless I've forgotten something.

Generally, when reading a number, one should IMHO do something like
myvalue = +document.forms["myform"].elements[counter].value
as it gets the conversion from "outer" to "inner" format out of the way,
and enables the inner value to be checked with a quick alert(myvalue) .

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