http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-html.html#ID-36113835
On 8/1/06, Monkeyden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Caroline (or Jen?)
All I can say is "Wow!" document.getElementById() only works in IE, not
FF. Your response is an arduous elaboration of my document.forms[0] and
document.forms[1], which is the correct solution.
On 8/1/06, Caroline Jen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 1. Each element in a document must have a unique id.
>
> This element is then accessed in script using
> document.getElementById().
>
> e.g. <p id="myP">...</p> -->
> document.getElementById("myP")
>
> If more than one element has the same id and you try
> to use that id
> with document.getElementById(), the method doesn't
> know which element
> you're talking about, and an error results.
>
> 2. <form name="findUsers"> <-->
> document.forms["findUsers"] or
> document.findUsers
>
> <form id="findUsers"> <-->
> document.getElementById("findUsers")
>
> 3. Only form elements have a value attribute.
>
> Only form elements can pass a value with a form when
> the form is submitted.
>
> <a> is not a form element.
>
> Example:
>
> <form name="myForm">
> <input name="myField" type="text" value="something">
> <input name="myOtherField" type="text"
> value="something-else">
> <input name="mySubmit" type="submit" value="Click to
> Submit">
> </form>
>
> Assuming that this is the first or only form in the
> page:
>
> The form can be referenced as:
>
> document.forms[0]
> document.getElementsByTagName("form")[0]
> document.forms["myForm"]
> document.forms.myForm
> document.myForm
> document.getElementsByName("myForm")[0]
>
> All but the first two of these require that the form
> have a name
> attribute whose value is "myForm". An id attribute
> will not work for this.
>
> Now, let's assume that we set a variable theForm equal
> to one of these
> references to the form whose name (not id) is
> "myForm". The first input
> in this form can then be referenced as any of the
> following:
>
> theForm.elements[0]
> theForm.getElementsByTagName("input")[0]
> theForm.elements["myField"]
> theForm.elements.myField
> theForm.myField
> theForm.getElementsByName("myField")[0]
>
> All but the first two of these require the the input
> have the name (not
> id) "myField". Similarly, the second input can be
> accessed as any of the
> following:
>
> theForm.elements[1]
> theForm.getElementsByTagName("input")[1]
> theForm.elements["myOtherField"]
> theForm.elements.myOtherField
> theForm.myOtherField
> theForm.getElementsByName("myOtherField")[0]
>
> All but the first two of these require the the input
> have the name (not
> id) "myOtherField".
>
> You can give a form or form element element an id
> attribute and then
> access it using document.getElementById() as well as
> getElementsByTagName(). However, you cannot use the id
> attribute value
> for forms and element array references.
>
> Suppose you have this:
>
> <form id="myForm">
> <!-- ...form elements... -->
> </form>
>
> Then none of these references will work for the form:
>
> document.forms["myForm"]
> document.forms.myForm
> document.myForm
>
> In each case, you'll get an error saying that the
> object reference is
> null, undefined, or isn't an object. The exact wording
> of the message
> depends on which browser you're using, but they all
> mean the same thing:
> "I've no idea what you're talking about".
>
> This appears to be the root of your problem.
>
> The short version: Give name attributes to all your
> form and form
> element tags. You should do this in any case, since
> serverside scripts
> don't read id's. You needn't bother with an id
> attribute for a form or
> form element unless you want to (a) access it in a
> script by means of
> document.getElementById() or (b) you want to style it
> using a CSS id
> selector (e.g. form#myForm or #myForm).
>
>
> --- Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Would it be possible if you can combine two form to
> > one but have two
> > object behind to accept the dat from form you
> > submit?
> >
> >
> > On 8/1/06, Krishna, Hari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > pass the formbean name at run time change the
> > logic It works for me:)
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Parvat Singh Ranawat
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 11:32 PM
> > > To: user@struts.apache.org
> > > Subject: two form one jsp
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm attempting to create a JSP that is made up of
> > two forms. Each
> > > form needs a same form bean and is processed by a
> > same
> > > action. The catch is that the one form comes from
> > Header (This will be
> > > there for all the pages as part of left panel )
> > >
> > > and second is coming from my jsp and problem
> > occures while calling JAVA
> > > SCRIPT
> > >
> > > ie
> > > 1) if I use document. form[0] then this always
> > points to the first form
> > > (which is there in Header)
> > > 2) if I use document.formName
> > > then there is ambiguity which form to call.
> > >
> > > so how to work in this situation
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