control type

[quickcur@yahoo.com]

hi, if I do

var f = document.forms['myform'].elements['myele'];

how can I tell f is a text, select, or radio?

Thanks,

qq

[Ian Collins]

Re: control type

quickcur@yahoo. com wrote:

hi, if I do
>
var f = document.forms['myform'].elements['myele'];
>
how can I tell f is a text, select, or radio?
>

f.nodeName.toLo werCase();
f.tagName.toLow erCase();

The toLowerCase() is required because IE converts nodeName to upper case
and FF doesn't, at least for nodeName. I haven't checked with tagName.

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Ian Collins.

[RobG]

Re: control type

quickcur@yahoo. com wrote:

hi, if I do
>
var f = document.forms['myform'].elements['myele'];
>
how can I tell f is a text, select, or radio?

alert(f.type);


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Rob

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: control type

"quickcur@yahoo .com" <quickcur@yahoo .comwrites:

var f = document.forms['myform'].elements['myele'];
>
how can I tell f is a text, select, or radio?

Each form control has a "type" property, whether it is an input,
select, button or textarea element.

For input and button elements, you specify the type in the type
attribute already. Textarea elements only gas the type "textarea",
and select elements have the types "select-one" and "select-multiple"
depending on the "multiple" attribute.

So, to check for text, select or radio:

if (f.type == "text") { // text
} else if (f.type == radio) { // radio
} else if (f.type.substri ng(0,7) == "select-") { // select
}

/L
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