Yw rasta, I mean no offence by over explaining. I don't know you or your skill sets very well and am just trying to help. Based on your most recent description of what it is you want I don't see why you need javascript at all. That being said I know js quite well and would be happy to help you when you're ready.
Cheers On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Rastafari <[email protected]> wrote: > > :) 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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