Mozilla hidden fields

Post #95,122 by ChrisR 4/8/03 6:54:56 PM 4/8/03 6:59:46 PM Reply	Mozilla hidden fields I'm trying to figure out why Mozilla (1.2 & 1.3) doesn't like the getElementByID() function for hidden fields. The following works in IE but not Mozilla (ie shows displays "bar" in the alert, whereas Mozilla complains that document.getElementById("foo") has no properties). <html> <head> <title>test me</title> </head> <body> <form name='fred'> Hello <input type='hidden' name='foo' value='bar' /> </form> </body> <script> alert(document.getElementById("foo").value); </script> </head> Edited by ChrisR April 8, 2003, 06:59:46 PM EDT Mozilla hidden fields I'm trying to figure out why Mozilla (1.2 & 1.3) doesn't like the getElementByID() function for hidden fields. The following works in IE but not Mozilla (ie shows displays "bar" in the alert, whereas Mozilla complains that document.getElementById("foo") has no properties). <html> <head> <title>test me</title> </head> <body> Hello <input type='hidden' name='foo' value='bar' /> </body> <script> alert(document.getElementById("foo").value); </script> </html> Collapse All History
Post #95,123 by Yendor 4/8/03 6:56:42 PM Reply	input needs to be inside a form, I think -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #95,124 by ChrisR 4/8/03 7:01:47 PM 4/8/03 7:03:48 PM Reply	Forgot the form tags.... ...edit the above to include the form tags, but it still seems to have the same problem. scratch that idea.... doesn't work for 'text' fields either. Must be missing the obvious. :-( Edited by ChrisR April 8, 2003, 07:03:48 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #95,133 by Yendor 4/8/03 7:21:46 PM Reply	Hmmm Could be a couple of simple things. Those're always the things to check first, IMHO. Just a couple of WAG's, so don't shoot me if they're wrong... 1) Move the `script` elements to the `head` of the document. 2) `<script name="Javascript1.2">` instead of just `<script>`. -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #95,146 by tseliot 4/8/03 7:37:00 PM Reply	getElementById needs an id, not a name? try <input type='hidden' id='foo' name='foo' value='bar' /> Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #95,166 by ChrisR 4/8/03 8:24:37 PM Reply	Mucho Gracias That's what I was missing - setting the ID makes the function work. Seems like I've been bitten by this one before - but in the opposite direction. Thanks. You've saved countless hours of head scratching. :-)

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