newbee's simple question

Hi Everyone,

I'm a newbee and need your help on this.

I have this line of code in the page:

Protected WithEvents hdnChecklist As System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
hdnChecklist.Text = "Test"
Button_Submit.Attributes.Add("OnClick", "onSubmit()")

It call the JavaScript func:

<script language="javascript"

function onSubmit(){
if document.Form1.hdnChecklist.text == "Test" {
alert(document.Form1.hdnChecklist.text);
document.Form1.submit();
}
}

</script>

For some weired reason the value of my textbox is not getting past or the function can't see it. What am I missing here??? It's such a simple test and it's driving me crazy why it doesn't work...

Thanks much!!

Gina

If you view the page in the browser, (look at it's source), you'll see that the textbox most likely has a different ID. You need to plug in that ID into your javascript code.

I think in JS, you reference the contents of textbox (and other form items) with hdnChecklist.Value, not hdnChecklist.Text (which is the way VB does it).

Hi Sandpaper and scottst!
You both were right. Once I fixed the id and text to value my alert worked displaying the: "Test".

<script language="javascript"

function onSubmit(){
alert(document.Form1.hdnChecklist.value);
document.Form1.submit();
}
</script>

But when I put a condition in - the code doesn't work:

<script language="javascript"

function onSubmit(){
if document.Form1.hdnChecklist.value == "Test" {
alert(document.Form1.hdnChecklist.value);
document.Form1.submit();
}
}
</script>

Why???

Thanks a lot!

Gina

You also need brackets around the condition!

if (document.Form1.hdnChecklist.value == "Test") {

I do have brackets...

Sorry... I see now that I missed the brackets! I can't grasp when you need to insert paranthesis ( and {} in JavaScript. It seems that I've always miss them and there is no way to debug to see why the code doesn't work. Is there a simple rule for dummies :( ??

Gina