Javascript breaks when I add hyphen

[supermanjnk]

Heres what I have

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
document.searchcandidate.company-1.focus();
//-->
</script>

as it is right now this works fine, however i have multiple records so when I make it look like this

document.searchcandidate.company-1.focus();

it breaks. I need to have the - in there because I am using php to explode it.

[john_k]

I don't see any difference in your two lines of code.

At any rate, I would guess that javascript is trying to subtract 1.focus() from document.searchcandidate.company. And that causes an error.

[supermanjnk]

yea that was a mistake the first line shouldn't have the -1

[dcrombie]

There are better ways of referencing form elements. Something like this might work:

document.forms["searchcandidate"].elements["company-1"].focus();

;)