form property and object

[mathieu gagnon]

Hello,

I'm new to this newsgroup and I have small question.

With something like this : <form name="a"><input name="name"></form>
Is it possible to get the name of the form (a) and access the input object
(name) too ?

Thanks,
/mathieu

[HikksNotAtHome]

In article <gI*********************@nnrp1.uunet.ca>, "mathieu gagnon"
<ma**@netc.net> writes:

I'm new to this newsgroup and I have small question.

With something like this : <form name="a"><input name="name"></form>
Is it possible to get the name of the form (a) and access the input object
(name) too ?

Thanks,
/mathieu

<form name="myForm">
<input type="button" onclick="alert(this.form.name)"
value="Click Me to see the Forms Name">
<input type="button" onclick="alert(this.name)"
value="Click Me to see My Name" name="myInput">
<input type="button"
onclick="alert('This input is in the ' + this.form.name + ' form. And my
input name is ' + this.name)"
value="Click Me to see the Forms Name and My Name" name="myInput2">
</form>

alert(document.forms[0].elements[1].name)
alert(document.forms[0].name)

In short, you access the form elements name property, or the elements name
property.

HTH
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Randy
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[Mathieu Gagnon]

If I try...

<form name="a"><input name="name"></form>
alert(document.forms[0].elements[1].name)
alert(document.forms[0].name)

The first alert gives "name", the second : "[object]".
What I need is "a" alerted without changing the name of the input.

Thanks,
/mathieu

"HikksNotAtHome" <hi************@aol.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:20***************************@mb-m14.aol.com...

In article <gI*********************@nnrp1.uunet.ca>, "mathieu gagnon"
<ma**@netc.net> writes:

I'm new to this newsgroup and I have small question.

With something like this : <form name="a"><input name="name"></form>
Is it possible to get the name of the form (a) and access the input object(name) too ?

Thanks,
/mathieu

<form name="myForm">
<input type="button" onclick="alert(this.form.name)"
value="Click Me to see the Forms Name">
<input type="button" onclick="alert(this.name)"
value="Click Me to see My Name" name="myInput">
<input type="button"
onclick="alert('This input is in the ' + this.form.name + ' form. And my
input name is ' + this.name)"
value="Click Me to see the Forms Name and My Name" name="myInput2">
</form>

alert(document.forms[0].elements[1].name)
alert(document.forms[0].name)

In short, you access the form elements name property, or the elements name
property.

HTH
--
Randy
All code posted is dependent upon the viewing browser
supporting the methods called, and Javascript being enabled.

[HikksNotAtHome]

In article <yS*********************@nnrp1.uunet.ca>, "Mathieu Gagnon"
<ma**@netc.net> writes:

If I try...

<form name="a"><input name="name"></form>
alert(document.forms[0].elements[1].name)
alert(document.forms[0].name)

The first alert gives "name", the second : "[object]".
What I need is "a" alerted without changing the name of the input.

The reason you are getting object is because you have a form input named "name"
and as such, instead of trying to access the form's name property, it is
accessing the field element named name, which is an object. Thats part of why
you should never name form inputs (or ids, or classes), the same as an HTML
attribute.

If you are going to try to access the name of a form that has an input named
name,
you may want to try renaming the input, programattically, and then renaming it
after getting the form name:

document.forms[0].elements["name"].name = "someThingElse";
alert(document.forms[0].name);
document.forms[0].elements["someThingElse"].name = "name"

Another alternative, if you are just dead set on having it named "name", is to
capitalize it "Name" and then it won't interfere.

HTH

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Randy
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