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  3. January 2004

Javascript newbie problem

I am trying out javascript and mostly find it OK. However, I have one problem that I cannot solve.

I am trying, using javascript, to update an INPUT text field defined in HTML by AS/400 WSG as

AFIELD.007-016

I wish to put in it the number of an element selected with a mouse click by the user to send this number back to the AS/400.

JavaScript does not allow names with punctuation. If I save the HTML, and change the name to AFIELD, it works fine so my javascript is otherwise OK.

Since the name is generated, I cannot change it. If I leave the INPUT definition as AFIELD.007-016,

and refer to the field in my javascript as AFIELD, IE 6.0 displays an alert that AFIELD is null or not an object.

I have tried putting the field name I update as AFIELD.007-016 in ( ), " ", ' ' etc., without success.

Any one have any ideas (or suggest another way of doing what I want)?

Many thanks for any help or advice

Rob Dixon







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