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  3. January 2004

RE: Javascript newbie problem

> From: Rob Dixon
> 
> I am trying, using javascript, to update an INPUT text  field defined
in
> HTML by AS/400 WSG as
> 
> AFIELD.007-016
> 
> 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.

Where supported, the following may work:

Element e = document.getElementsByName('AFIELD.007-016')[0];

getElementsByName returns an array of all elements with that name.  If
there is only one field with that name, the subscript [0] will return
that object.

Joe

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