Form elements

[ChetN]

I am using a questionnaire software which sets the "name" as a number rather than a word. Eg. name="1" I have the vendor's permission to add javascript so that is not an issue here.

The problem is that I cannot use javascript to add some text to the value for the "input." I get an error message if I use document.theForm.1.value.

Example.To this element
<input type=button, value=&quot;A&quot; name=&quot;1&quot;> I want the value to print in the resulting e-mail message: &quot;A is incorrect.&quot;

Since this is group under the name &quot;1&quot; what happens if I use document.theForm[10].value, if this is not the element I am addressing in the group?

Any ideas?

 

[jemminger]

if you cannot alter how the form fields are being named, then you can access them with index/array notation. the array of form elements is zero-based.

e.g. if <input type=button, value=&quot;A&quot; name=&quot;1&quot;> is the first form element of the first form on the document, you can access it as &quot;document.forms[0].elements[0];&quot;

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[ChetN]

Thanks for the quick reply. Your answer does work. It does mean that I have to manually.

Do you know how to code the program to find out which element? For example I have a questionnaire with about a hundred different elements (mostly checkboxes and radio buttons). I would like the system to know which element so that it can attach (from a different array) some value or string of text automatically

To give you an idea of what I am doing. My questionnaire is actually a classroom quiz. When the student selects the answer to a multiple-choice question, I want the system to check their answer (example: A) and if it is incorrect, I want the system to grab &quot;Sorry, the answer is B&quot; from an array of &quot;correct answers.&quot; Obvously I do not know which answer from the group will be chosen. I may add or delete questions which will also affect the manual element count.