Reference input without ID

[PRESENT321]

I have a form that appears several times on a page, and would rather
not assign IDs.
Is there a way to have my validation function focus() a text input
without IDs?
www.osbornewood.com
Search form in the upper right corner.

Thanks,

Matthew

[Benjamin]

document.forms["yourform"].elements["element"].focus();
PR********@gmail.com wrote:

I have a form that appears several times on a page, and would rather
not assign IDs.
Is there a way to have my validation function focus() a text input
without IDs?
www.osbornewood.com
Search form in the upper right corner.

Thanks,

Matthew

[McKirahan]

<PR********@gmail.comwrote in message
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I have a form that appears several times on a page, and would rather
not assign IDs.
Is there a way to have my validation function focus() a text input
without IDs?
www.osbornewood.com
Search form in the upper right corner.

Don't you mean upper left side?

"http://www.osbornewood.com" has this Search Form:

<form action="http://www.osbornewood.com/search.cfm"
method="get" name="bar" id="bar" onSubmit="return searchSubmit();">
<input type="text" name="criteria" id=criteria size="7" value="Search"
style="color:grey;" onfocus="criteriaFocus(this);"
onblur="criteriaBlur(this);" />&nbsp;
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>
which calls this function in "http://www.osbornewood.com/main.js":

function searchSubmit() {
if (document.getElementById) {
criteria = document.getElementById('criteria').value;
if (criteria == '' || criteria == 'Search') {
document.getElementById('criteria').focus();
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
}

Try changing it to:

function searchSubmit() {
var criteria = document.bar.criteria.value;
if (criteria == '' || criteria == 'Search') {
document.bar.criteria.focus();
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}

Also, you can remove all "id=" from within the "form".

[PRESENT321]

Yes, that's the one.
I have it on a server-side include, and would like to include it three
times per page.
I took the other two off because it didn't work properly.
So, I would have three forms called "bar"... That won't work very well
with the current or suggested code.
Thanks,
Matthew

[Tom Cole]

Don't provide any ID or name for the forms and provide the same ID for
all input boxes. Then reference them by:

document.forms[0].element['criteria']
document.forms[1].element['criteria']
document.forms[2].element['criteria']

HTH

[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <nI******************************@comcast.com>, dated
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:49:31 remote, seen in news:comp.lang.javascript,
McKirahan <Ne**@McKirahan.composted :

><PR********@gmail.comwrote in message
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>I have a form that appears several times on a page, and would rather
not assign IDs.
Is there a way to have my validation function focus() a text input
without IDs?

Use something like onClick="Try(this.form)"
with
function Try(F) { with (F) {
... } }

// or with F. before the names of the controls rather than using with.

OTOH, if the appearing forms are the same, why?
AND, code to be executed should not be repeated in the source; you can
write your form with a javascript function (and then it's easy to give
each one a sequenced or other ID).

return false;
} else {
return true;
}

There's no need to put an else after a return.

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[PRESENT321]

Never mind, I fixed it on the server-side.
Thanks for your help!

Matthew

[PRESENT321]

Never mind, I fixed it on the server-side.
Thanks for your help!

Matthew