Thanks for the quick reply - the app is a holiday calendar so the checkboxes allow for 1/2 days - book the morning or the afternoon or both! I was thinking it might be to do with the boxes - the original developer never wrote the functionality for this! I will rename and get the values accordingly.
Thanks again! Andy On 9 Apr, 16:52, "Pennings, Ted" <ted.penni...@libertymutual.com> wrote: > Your issue comes from assigning the same id twice. This is a > non-supported behavior and your page won't validate. > > And are you sure you don't want radio boxes? Can a valid entry really be > both AM and PM? If you go with radios, a common name will link them for > selection purposes, and be sure to give unique ids. If you use radios, > there was a great thread about this here a week > ago,http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous/browse_thread/thr > ead/fce18f49466cdabb > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com > > [mailto:prototype-scriptacul...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Andy_D > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 11:25 AM > To: Prototype & script.aculo.us > Subject: [Proto-Scripty] Checkbox values for Beginners > > Newbie here with some very rusty JS experience just getting my head > round the whole Prototype (1.5.0_rc0) thing on IE7 with Lotus Notes as > the backend AND picking up where a contractor left off! > > I have simple form with two boxes - AM and PM > > <input type="checkbox" name="txtStartAMPM" value="am" checked > id="txtStartAMPM">am <input type="checkbox" name="txtStartAMPM" > value="pm" checked id="txtStartAMPM">pm > > and a submission routine that needs to get the value of these to put in > a URL string > > "&txtStartAMPM=am,pm" > > Obviously if the box is unchecked we don't need the value. I have > trawled through many sites this afternoon but have had no luck in > finding one that details how to return the values of the boxes. I got as > far as > > var startAMPM = $('txtStartAMPM').pluck('checked'); > > and got stuck. Could someone give a newb a hand please? Many thanks in > advance > > Andy_D- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to prototype-scriptaculous+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
