hyphen in my form element name...

[sonicsnail]

I have a page that when you click on tickboxes, it updates a textarea. I'm working with someone elses CGI and cannot change form or element "names". As you'll see, I have 'document.messaging.X-E3-Recipients.value' and JS falls over because of the hyphens.

How can I get round this??


<SCRIPT type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;>
<!--
function putText(addText) {
var addText;
var revisedMessage;
var currentMessage = document.messaging.X-E3-Recipients.value;
revisedMessage = currentMessage+addText;
document.messaging.X-E3-Recipients.value = revisedMessage;
document.messaging.X-E3-Recipients.focus();
return;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

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<table>
<tr>
<td>Click the tick box...</td><td><input onClick=&quot;putText('this text should appear');&quot; type=&quot;checkbox&quot;></input></td>
</tr>
</table>

 

[sonicsnail]

sorry.. I should have mentioned that &quot;messaging&quot; is the name of the form, and &quot;X-E3-Recipients&quot; is the name of the textarea.

 

[tsdragon]

Try this form of element addressing:

document.messages.elements['X-E3-Recipients'].whatever

Tracy Dryden
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