Re: Building an array of checked checkboxes

[James Perkins <jrperkinsjr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know anything about prototypeJS, but remember HTML input allows for
the onchange() or onclick() JavaScript function.

Here is an example:
onclick="if (!this._hasChanged){yourFunction()};this._hasChanged=true;"

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James R. Perkins


On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 07:38, Bob P. Roche <BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am building a screen where I need to verify if any changes were made
> when the user tries to leave the screen. I have list of checkboxes where
> codes are selected. I am trying to compare those to a copied set in a
> non-displayed DIV.  I am using prototypeJS for most of my javascript, but
> I am new to both javascript and prototypeJS. Trying to self teach, but I
> am not  big fan of the prototypeJS documentation.
>
> Here is what I am trying
>
> My checkbox ID's are savecode and code. All boxes in each group have the
> same id.
>
>        newcode = $$('#code:checked');
>        savedcode = $$('#savecode:checked');
>
>        if (savecode != newcode) {
>
>        do something here;
>
>        }
>
> This always says the are not equal. I think more than the input value is
> being pulled into my variables.
>
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