addressing form elements in Opera 6

form elements in Opera

[ericthefish]

Hi all,

I'm having some difficulty getting a simple form JS to work in Opera. My JS script works OK in IE4+, NS4+, and NS6+.

What is the correct JS syntax to reference form elements in Opera?

I'm using the following script for the other browsers:
"document.finder.product.selectedIndex=0;"
where the form name is "finder" and the element name is "product". This works OK except for Opera.

thanks in advance

eric

[ericthefish]

Whoa...don't bother, it's just all started working.

Must be browser lockup or something!

Greg

[DrDoc]

Welcome [webmasterworld.com] to Webmaster World!

Well, even though it's working... You should consider switching over to something like this:

if(document.getElementById) {
document.getElementById('product').selectedIndex=0;
}
else {
document.finder.product.selectedIndex=0;
}

This requires identical name and id attributes, and is forward and backward compatible :)

[ericthefish]

Hi,

I had already tried 'getElementById' but I just got error messages, I think the browser must have crashed and confused matters.

I will use the method you suggest, it is preferable.

many thanks for the advice

Greg