Drupal form functions and Javascript

By nevets on 11 May 2005 at 21:47 UTC

I search for an answer and while I found discusions on the issue I did not see any solutions.

What I want to do is fill in a HTML form field from javascript. I can do this with hand written html, but can not fiind the correct way to refere to fields by name when they follow the pattern used by the form functions (edit[name] or edit[name][]).

I want to have the onclick handler to a button call a function with a reference to the field, something like function(this.form.field_name); My attempts so far though to match field_name with the name generated by the Drupal form functions have produced javascript errors.

Does any one have a solution for this?

Thanks
Steve

Comments

Have the same question

webgeer commented 26 October 2005 at 06:00

Did you ever solve this?

Thanks

I came across a way of making it work

webgeer commented 8 November 2005 at 07:41

By looking at some other javascript based modules I was able to figure out that you can do something like:

 var areas = document.getElementsByTagName("input");
                for (var i=0; i<areas.length; i++)  {
                        if (areas[i].name.match("name"))  {
                                namefield = areas[i];
                        }                       
                }

you can get a pointer to the form element that has the name edit[name].