Thanks Ken,
I am also in the habit of not naming my forms. So this solution would
involve naming the forms. Something I have done in the past. It seems
to me this would be common for someone to want to $() a form element,
but alas I hear no other solutions.
I have another question while were on the topic of forms.
I am building my parameters to pass to my ajax request like...
var pars = '?ajaxrequest='+$F('mycomment');
And it "mostly" works. How would I urlencode $F('mycomment')?
Thanks for any help
Terry
On Jun 7, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Ken Snyder wrote:
>
> Terry Riegel wrote:
>> ...I would prefer to not have the id in the form. If I remove it the
>> dollar function doesn't work anymore (for obvious reasons) is there
>> another way to grab the object?
>>
>> I would rather code it as...
>> <input type="text" name="mycomment">
>> ...
>>
> Hi Terry,
>
> I also avoid putting ids onto inputs since they can be accessed
> through
> the forms and elements collections:
>
> document.forms['FormName'].elements['InputName'];
> or
> document.FormName.elements['InputName'];
>
> In fact, I use a custom function (below) as shorthand:
> SF('FormName','InputName');
>
> -- Ken Snyder
>
>
>
> //
> // SmartForm Function
> // returns form object or element object from form name, element name
> //
> // Example Usage:
> // Field(0,'myelement') returns form 0 element "myelement"
> // Field('myform','myelement') returns form "myform" element
> "myelement"
> // Field(0) returns form form 0
> // Field('myform') returns form "myform" assuming there is no element
> named "myform"
> // Field('myelement') returns form "myelement" assuming there is no
> form
> named "myelement"
> function SF(formName,elName) {
> if( elName && document.forms[formName] &&
> document.forms[formName].elements ) {
> return document.forms[formName].elements[elName];
> } else {
> return document.forms[formName];
> }
> }
>
> >
>
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