:) come on man, this is basic html/cf stuff i know this stuff... i guess im just a bit lost in the javascript side of things, and thats where im hungup... ill explain more later, im trying to figure some other things out now...
but thank ye... i think your original reply will be the best help. thanks too ian! tw On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > It looks like you are confusing the input parameters "name" and "id." They > are different. ID is part of the DOM and has nothing to do with forms > specifically. You can't get the id value from a form when it's submitted to > CF, only the name. That's what form.fieldNames consists of, names. > > I'm also a little confused as to whether you are talking about checkboxes or > radio buttons. Radio buttons can only have one selection per named group, > whereas checkboxes allow multiple selections within a group. > > Getting at them via cfml is simple. If the name of your checkbox group is > "myGroup" for instance, you would simply read #form.myGroup# on your cfm > page the form is submitted to. The value of form.myGroup will be a comma > delimited list of the values of each checked checkbox. > > So as an example your form page might have four checkboxes in the myGroup > group: > > checkbox #1: value=a checked=true > checkbox #2: value=b checked=false > checkbox #3: value=c checked=true > checkbox #4: value=d checked=true > > the value of form.myGroup would be: a,c,d > > If all you want to do is get the values using CF there's no need for > javascript at all. > Does that help or am I missing the question here? > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Rastafari <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> ok, first of all, thanks mike. >> second of all... >> >> how do you handle this then? >> i have a set of checkboxes that i want to get the value >> on the next page, via cfml. >> i also want them to be able to be checked as well >> as unchecked. and on my subsequent page, get to all of them. >> if i make them all the same id, then i can get them in a list >> from the form.fieldName, value. >> >> how would i do this same easy thing without the same id/name? >> >> tw >> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > ...or you could just loop through it like I said. Three lines of code, >> zing >> > zing. Why does everyone always try to over complicate this stuff? >> > >> >> but in a situation where you only want one to be checkd >> >> at a time, how else do you do that? >> > Well radio buttons SHOULD have the same name. That's the whole point of >> the >> > name, to define a group of radio buttons. Radio buttons by definition >> only >> > allow one checked at a time within the group. >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Rastafari <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> k... thanks chowlee. >> >> ill be back with more questions >> >> >> >> :) >> >> >> >> tw >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Charlie Griefer >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, 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> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > 2 things: >> >> > >> >> > 1) your <script> is running before the page renders, so there's >> nothing >> >> > there to report. either put it in a function and call it onload, or >> run >> >> the >> >> > <script> at the bottom of the page. >> >> > >> >> > 2) id is meant to be unique. you won't get an array of values out of >> >> that. >> >> > the browser expects IDs to be unique, and when it sees an element >> with a >> >> > given ID (via document.getElementById()), it just returns the first >> one. >> >> > >> >> > So... you can try something like this: >> >> > >> >> > var fields = >> >> document.forms['peripheralForm'].getElementsByTagName('input'); >> >> > alert(fields.length); >> >> > >> >> > but of course, that won't give you what you want if there are other >> >> elements >> >> > in the form. >> >> > >> >> > could be a job for jQuery and selectors :) >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > -- >> >> > I have failed as much as I have succeeded. 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