Posted by Richard Lynch on 04/12/05 01:45

On Sun, April 10, 2005 4:32 pm, Marek Kilimajer said:
> Assuming your form is named "Selection", you will have a javascript
> array document.forms['Selection'].elements['distID[]'] available. You
> can try:
>
> alert(document.forms['Selection'].elements['distID[]'][0].value);

I can GUARANTEE this will *NOT* work.

You *CANNOT* use [] as part of a 'name' in JavaScript.

No way, no how.

No matter how you quote it, embed it in a string, or try to sneak up on it.

It ain't gonna work.

'Cuz I tried every godamn reasonable (and quite a few UN-resaonable) ways
to do that. *

You'll just have to "know" that elements[7] is the one that you want.

Or maybe use an ID="xxx" attribute that does NOT have [] in it. But that
new-fangled ID attiribute was added long after I worried about this issue,
so you're on your own for that.

* In retrospect, you could probably write some kind of JavaScript function
that iterates through every single element, and compares its '.name' to
'distID' and to '3' (assuming you use distID[3] for a name) and then
return the one object you were looking for... But that would be horribly
inefficient JavaScript and would make your page dog-slow, so don't do
that.

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