ahhh just found it its...
escape()
Thanks,
Terry
On Jun 7, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Terry Riegel wrote:
>
> 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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