Re: [WEB400] Javascript and browser compatability

[Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe

Many thanks again.   I had wondered if something like this was possible 
but had no idea how it might be done.

This may be a bit advanced for me as yet, but I do understand what your 
code is doing and once I have got getElementsByName working I might well 
be brave enough to give it a try and revert to ID

Best wishes

Rob

Joe Lee wrote:

> The name attribute is not specified as an attribute for every element,
> and there may be problems with using it on every element in XHTML. I
> know that there are a few instances where it is specified, such as <a>
> anchor, <button>, and <input> elements. With the <input> elements the
> name attribute is necessary because it is used to identify the value
> when the form is submitted. However even when an element requires the
> name attribute, I would recommend also using the id attribute. However
> as Walden points out there may be a problem if the <input> tags are
> generated by WSG. Though in that case you could possibly do something
> like this:
>
> function generateIdsForInputElements()
> {
>  var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
>  var i =0;
>  for (i=0:i <inputs.length:i++)
>  {
>   inputs(i).id = inputs(i).name;
>  }
> }
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