issues with form elements

[john]

if I have
if (document.form[0].element[0].type == "select")
and I have a form with at liest 1 element on the page this should work
right?

I keep getting a "document.form.0 is null or not an object" message any
idea why?

john

[Evertjan.]

john <wenjoh26@em*********@pct.edu> wrote in
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if I have
if (document.form[0].element[0].type == "select")
and I have a form with at liest 1 element on the page this should work
right?

I keep getting a "document.form.0 is null or not an object" message any
idea why?

document.forms[0].elements[0].

??

[Richard Cornford]

"Evertjan." <no**@none.nl> wrote in message
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john <wenjoh26@em*********@pct.edu> wrote in
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if I have
if (document.form[0].element[0].type == "select")
and I have a form with at liest 1 element on the page
this should work right?

I keep getting a "document.form.0 is null or not an object"
message any idea why?

document.forms[0].elements[0].

However, from the W3C HTML DOM specs:-

Interface HTMLSelectElement
type of type DOMString, readonly.
The type of this form control. This is the string
"select-multiple" when the multiple attribute is true
and the string "select-one" when false.

-so comparison with the string "select" should not be expected to work.
But, IceBrowser 5 is an example of at least one browser that erroneously
assigns the string "select" to the - type - property of a SELECT element
so it might be best to check to see if the - type - property contains
the substring "select" (and then maybe the - multiple - property if that
is important).

Richard.