I think what you're grabbing with the getElementById is the row that the 
field is in.  I think you should drop the '__row' from the element id.

Can you try this:

document.getElementById(certificate_request_commonname).createAttribute("value","abc")

...and see if it helps?

-Jim


On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 7:13:34 AM UTC-5, Iancic Bogdan wrote:
>
> The user enters input to fill the form, but I want to manually complete 
> one field. I've tried using 
> document.getElementById(certificate_request_commonname__row).createAttribute("value","abc");
>
> but it doesn't work. In the form i'm adding data to a table. 
> certificate_request is the name of the table and commonname is the column 
> name. After I've looked on the web2py book I saw that I have to write: 
> tablename_columnname__row. I've done that but it doesn't work. it always 
> says to me: Empty string passed to getElementById(). Can anyone help?
>

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