[macfan_1280]

Hi,

First, I should mention that I'm not too familiar with Javascript. I can get basic tasks done, but don't have much experience.

I was recently asked to make some modifications to a web page that uses javascript for validation. One of the form's fields is:
<type="hidden" name=" _mygroup.TEXTAREA.myItem" value="test 1106 feb 2">

so, how could I retrive the value of the field. It seems like the periods are confusing the javascript engine.

Here's what I'm trying to do on a submit:
alert("item="+ document.forms(0)._mygroup.TEXTAREA.myItem.value );
...it keeps telling me that something is not an object....I think it's seeing the periods inside the item's name and is thus looking for its information.


Thank you in advance for any help.

[madmacgames]

When you have a name of something like that which uses characters that javascript will interpret differently, put it in square braces and quote it so that javascript does not interpret the special characters as literals, but instead uses them in the object's name:

Code:
document.forms(0)['_mygroup.TEXTAREA.myItem'].value

You can do the same with the form name as well:

Code:
document.forms['myFormName']['_mygroup.TEXTAREA.myItem'].value

And also call the form "normally" if it doesn't have a funny name:

Code:
document.forms.myFormName['_mygroup.TEXTAREA.myItem'].value