Oh, I thought this was obvious, but maybe not. Replace "form" with the name of your form or with forms[x] where x is the number of the form on the page.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > Whoops, I think that should be "i<form.elements.length" > > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You're going to have to loop through form.elements and count them. Note, >> this isn't tested and just off the top of my head. Can't remember if you >> refer to id as "id" or "id.value", you might have to mess with it a bit. On >> another note it's generally bad to have multiple elements with the same id. >> >> var iCount = 0; >> for(var i=0; i<form.elements;i++) { >> if(form.elements[i].id == "updateFirmware") iCount++ >> } >> >> alert(iCount); >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Tony <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> i want that alert to tell me how many checkboxes with the >>> id="updateFirmware" there are. >>> its telling me that fields is null :( >>> >>> help. >>> >>> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" >>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> >>> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> >>> <head> >>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> >>> <title>Untitled Document</title> >>> <script type="text/javascript"> >>> var fields = document.getElementById('updateFirmware') >>> alert(fields.length); >>> </script> >>> </head> >>> >>> <body> >>> >>> <form name="peripheralForm" action="tony.cfm" method="post"> >>> Test >>> >>> <input type="checkbox" id="updateFirmware" /> >>> <br /> >>> Test >>> >>> <input type="checkbox" id="updateFirmware" /> >>> <br /> >>> Test >>> >>> <input type="checkbox" id="updateFirmware" /> >>> <br /> >>> Test >>> >>> <input type="checkbox" id="updateFirmware" /> >>> <br /> >>> </form> >>> >>> </body> >>> >>> </html> >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287835 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
