Date: 05/14/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: java

Why doesn’t document.getElementById(’location’).value work as function parameter in Javascript? What does work is: var temp = document.getElementById(’location’); temp.value works fine as function parameter. Apparently javascript doesn’t like referencing fields directly on functions as in getElementById(’location’).value as a function parameter. IMHO this is implementation defect. I hit against it once in a while and then I forget all about it. This [...]

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