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  • Viet
    #1

    Name of Form Element begin with number

    I have problem in retrieve a value of a form element that have name
    begin with a number. For example, for this HTML code
    <input type="text" name="0000ABC12 345CD6789" id="0000ABC1234 5CD6789">
    I got Javascript error at document.form.0 000ABC12345CD67 89.value

    Thanks.
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    • kaeli
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      Re: Name of Form Element begin with number

      In article <9138b68.040115 0955.6bde7db@po sting.google.co m>,
      vietla@juno.com enlightened us with...[color=blue]
      > I have problem in retrieve a value of a form element that have name
      > begin with a number. For example, for this HTML code
      > <input type="text" name="0000ABC12 345CD6789" id="0000ABC1234 5CD6789">
      > I got Javascript error at document.form.0 000ABC12345CD67 89.value
      >
      > Thanks.
      >[/color]

      Don't use the shortcut syntax if your elements begin with numbers or
      special characters. It's not very cross-browser, anyway.

      And I sure hope you didn't name your form "form"...

      Sub your formname here.
      document.forms["formname"].elements["0000ABC12345CD 6789"].value

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        • Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft
          #3
          Re: Name of Form Element begin with number

          Hi,

          Viet wrote:
          [color=blue]
          > I have problem in retrieve a value of a form element that have name
          > begin with a number. For example, for this HTML code
          > <input type="text" name="0000ABC12 345CD6789" id="0000ABC1234 5CD6789">
          > I got Javascript error at document.form.0 000ABC12345CD67 89.value
          >
          > Thanks.[/color]

          This is not legal HTML.

          From the HTML 4.01 specs:
          <quote>
          # ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be
          followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"),
          underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").
          </quote>

          See the specs at
          <URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-cdata>

          Laurent
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