checkbox with checked=true

[IlseDC]

In my HTML document I have 3 checkboxes:
<INPUT type="checkbox" name="Items" id="A"/>
<INPUT type="checkbox" name="Items" id="B"/>
<INPUT type="checkbox" name="Items" id="C"/>

When I do the following script the result is 3.
alert (mydocument.forms["myForm"].Items.length);


When I change the HTML with 2 checked checkboxes:
<INPUT type="checkbox" name="Items" id="A" checked="true"/>
<INPUT type="checkbox" name="Items" id="B" checked="true"/>
<INPUT type="checkbox" name="Items" id="C"/>

The result of the following script is 1 instead of 3.
alert (mydocument.forms["myForm"].Items.length);

Does anyone know why I get only the unchecked item with mydocument.forms["myForm"].Items?

Thanks.
Ilse

 

[Foamcow]

it reports 3 to me

only thing different is I used

alert (document.forms["myForm"].Items.length

not, "document" not "mydocument"



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[Foamcow]

sorry hit submit prematurely there..

I meant
NOTE: "document" and not "mydocument"

Could you be counting something else other than the elements in "myForm" ?

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[ChrisHunt]

Technically it should be:

<input type="checkbox" name="Items" id="A" checked="checked" />

[ul]
[li]XHTML element names must be in lower case (I'm assuming you're using XHTML because of the trailing / in the tag).[/li]
[li]You need to put a space before the [tt]/>[/tt] so as not to confuse old browsers.[/li]
[li]Attributes that didn't need a value in HTML have to be given a value equal to their own name in XHTML: [tt]checked="checked"[/tt], [tt]selected="selected"[/tt], etc.[/li]
[/ul]

None of the above explains your Javascript results, though.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[IlseDC]

There was an error in the naming of my checkboxes.
Thanks for your advice!