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I have aparticular form that every time I enter the form name in, that after
closing the page and re-opening it, the name disappears. I even attempted to
enter it directly into the page code. Still it disappears. Any thoughts? I
believe this to be the issue to why I am having trouble running a proven
jscript on this page.

David

 

[Jon Spivey]

Without knowing what could be causing this it's usually easier not to name
forms, rather pass the form to your function. Say you have some script that
runs onsubmit

<form onsubmit="return doForm(this);">
type frontpage here <input type="text" name="a" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
function doForm(f){
if(f.a.value!='frontpage'){alert('type frontpage');return false;}
return true;
}
</script>

Apart from removing issues with form names scripts written this way are also
much easier to re-use. Alternative is to reference by index, eg
document.forms[0] <- 1st form on the page
document.forms[1] <- 2nd form on the page
etc

With either of the above approaches the form doesn't need a name atall.

Cheers,
Jon
http://MyMobileDeal.com

 

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Thank you. This was the reason for my script not to work. The
document.forms[#].

David

Without knowing what could be causing this it's usually easier not to name
forms, rather pass the form to your function. Say you have some script that
runs onsubmit

<form onsubmit="return doForm(this);">
type frontpage here <input type="text" name="a" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

<script type="text/javascript">
function doForm(f){
if(f.a.value!='frontpage'){alert('type frontpage');return false;}
return true;
}
</script>

Apart from removing issues with form names scripts written this way are also
much easier to re-use. Alternative is to reference by index, eg
document.forms[0] <- 1st form on the page
document.forms[1] <- 2nd form on the page
etc

With either of the above approaches the form doesn't need a name atall.

Cheers,
Jon
http://MyMobileDeal.com

I have aparticular form that every time I enter the form name in, that
after
closing the page and re-opening it, the name disappears. I even attempted
to
enter it directly into the page code. Still it disappears. Any thoughts?
I
believe this to be the issue to why I am having trouble running a proven
jscript on this page.

David

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