FORM Problem (also posted in javascript).

[Chubby]

Hey chaps,

I have a textarea on a web page. I place a button and onclick I call a javascript function to get the value of the textarea, the javascript works. I place a form object around the textarea and the javascript can no longer see the textarea raising "Error: Textareax Undefined"

Any ideas ????? This looks simplistic but I've boiled the whole problem down to the simplest form to try and work out why this is happening...

Cheers.

Chubby..

[Ecniv]

Probably how you referenced the object. Try putting formname.objectname and see if that works.

[Chubby]

Probably how you referenced the object. Try putting formname.objectname and see if that works.

Did that, no amount of qualification makes a difference....

Narrowed it down to something within the table around which the form is put. I put another form at the top of the page and it works without a problem... kinda given up, put some hidden fields into the form at the top that an onclick of a button will set from the table's controls and submit....

pain in the a---- but still the page is way too complex to try and debug (a fair bit of DHTML)..

Thanks

Chubby..

[mendhak]

What code did you use in the first place?

You could also try document.getElementById()

[nkad]

You could do this:

<script>
   function showText(thisForm)
   {
      alert(thisForm.sometext.value);
   }
</script>

<form name="myform">
<textarea name="sometext">Hello!</textarea>
<input type="button" value="click me" onclick="showText(this.form)">
</form>