[cfaussie] RE: [OT] Undefined JS - why?

Steve Onnis Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:32:01 -0800

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Taco

Looks like your object reference if getting lost after the first function recurence

probably not what you want but it works

</script>

<form name="bla">
<span id="spanID"><font><blockquote>
<div id="inDiv">sadfasf</div>
</blockquote></font></span>
</form>
<script>
getFormName(document.getElementById("inDiv"))
alert(formName);
</script>

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Taco Fleur
Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2004 8:39 PM
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Subject: [cfaussie] RE: [OT] Undefined JS - why?

nope that ain't it either.

try

// retrieve a form name from an object
function getFormName( obj )
{
var parent = obj.parentElement;
if ( parent.tagName == 'FORM')
{
  var formName = parent.getAttribute('name');

alert(formName); *********************************************************************
  return formName
}
else
{
  getFormName( parent );
}
}

You'll see it works, it just won't return the value

Taco Fleur

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Onnis
Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2004 7:06 PM
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Subject: [cfaussie] RE: [OT] Undefined JS - why?

try something other than parent cause I would say its reserved

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Taco Fleur
Sent: Tuesday, 20 January 2004 6:19 PM
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Subject: [cfaussie] [OT] Undefined JS - why?

I can't figure out why the following function keeps returning undefined

// retrieve a form name from an object
function getFormName( obj )
{
var parent = obj.parentElement;
if ( parent.tagName == 'FORM')
{
  var formName = parent.getAttribute('name');
  return formName
}
else
{
  getFormName( parent );
}
}

While if I put a alert within the function I can see formName is populated with a correct value

Any ideas?

Taco Fleur

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