oh, I misunderstood what you meant the first time. .val() instead of
check should work....
originally I had wanted to collect all the values into one variable
for the checkboxes, but I ran into some problems so I changed over to
making a field for each checkbox.
On Feb 20, 9:29 pm, Hamish Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What version of jQuery are you using? .val() should return "" rather
> than undefined if you find inputs successfully.
>
> HOWEVER, there is another problem:
>
> Putting ':checked' means that if the boxes are NOT checked, jQuery
> won't find them so .val() doesn't exist for the object. Remove the
> ':checked' and try again.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hamish
>
> On Feb 21, 11:32 am, Robert Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello
>
> > I'm collecting a number of values from various form elements:
> > textfield, radio, checkbox.
>
> > since some of the fields aren't require on my form, when I POST their
> > values they are returned as 'undefined'
>
> > is there a way in Jquery that would allow me to set all variables that
> > are undefined with a given value like "N/A" or even just ""?
>
> > for example, after the form is submitted, I'm using the following code
> > to populate my values:
> > //cancer vars
> > var cancerVal = $("input[name='cancer']:checked").val();
> > var cancerTypeVal = $("#cancerType").val();
> > var cancerDateVal = $("#cancerDate").val();
> > var chemoCanVal = $("input[name='chemoCan']:checked").val();
> > var radiationCanVal =
> > $("input[name='radiationCan']:checked").val();
> > var surgeryCanVal =
> > $("input[name='surgeryCan']:checked").val();
> > var otherCanMoreVal =
> > $("input[name='otherCanMore']:checked").val();
>
> > doing something like:
>
> > var chemoCanVal ="";
>
> > before the submit does not seem to help.
>
> > Alternately, if there is a way that I can use a function to replace
> > all instances of 'undefined' with another value after the form is
> > submitted, that too would work.
>
> > thanks in advance!
>
> > cheers,
> > -robert
