Re: [WEB400] Javascript newbie problem

[Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe

Many thanks for your help

Joe Pluta wrote:

> Where supported, the following may work:
>
> Element e = document.getElementsByName('AFIELD.007-016')[0];
>
> getElementsByName returns an array of all elements with that name.  If
> there is only one field with that name, the subscript [0] will return
> that object.
I had tried getElementsByName but without really understanding what it did.

I have now tried

var e
e = document.getElementsByName('AFIELD.007-016')[0];
alert(e)

The alert box displays

   [object]

rather than the name.

Am I doing something wrong?

Many thanks


Rob Dixon