Re: [Dynapi-Help] netscape and accessing forms through javascript...

[Ben S. <ben...@tr...>]

The difference between Netscape and IE in terms of accessing forms on a
layer is that Netscape treats the layer as a separate document.

IE: document.formname.formelement.value
NS: document.layer.document.formname.formelement.value

The trick I use, which works when your event is being triggered by the
form itself, is to pass the calling object to your function.  For
example:

function validate(obj) {
  for (var i=0; i<obj.form.length; i++) {
    alert(obj.form[i].value);
  }
}

// and then in a div somewhere...
<form name="myForm">
Name: <br><input name="name"><br>
<input type="button" value="submit" onclick="validate(this);">
</form>

This code will just print out the values of your form in alert boxes. 
Hopefully that will give you some ideas.

ben


Matthew wrote:
> 
> hey love the new DYNAPI2 .. just started using it yesterday and find it very
> intuitive and somewhat fun...
> 
> What I am trying to do is allow form elements to be filled out and then add
> this information to a different layer....
> 
> so I am extracting the form elements out through javascript, assigning each
> to a variable then adding these variables to the setHTML() method...
> this works in IE as I can access the form elements directly through the
> document.forms.formname.formelement.value... but NS it seams to be a
> different story.. I am assuming that because the form is on a layer that I
> have to somehow access the form through the layer... but I am not sure how
> the DYNAPI writes to the DOM for me to access.. looking at IEs DOM the
> DYNAPI2 writes JSDynLayer0, etc but I cannot seam to access the form
> referencing this in netscape..
> 
> eg document.layers.JSDynLayer0.formname.formelement.value
> 
> so i am hoping that you have any sugestions..
> 
> Thanks MattieK
> 
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