change names of formfields with js

[BayK]

Hi

I do have a problem changing the name of fields using js....

I'm sure there's an easy solution but i can't figure it out ^^

I just want to change the names of formfields (inputs or textareas)

document.getElementsByName('myName')[0].name = 'test';

this expression should set the name of the first Element named myName to test.

i wanted to include this feature into this function

	function setName(name)
	{
		var Elemente = new Array();

		for(i=0; ;i++)
		{
			node = document.getElementsByName(name + i);
			if(node[0] == null && document.getElementsByName(name + (i+1))[0] == null)
				break;
			for(j=0; j<node.length; j++)
				Elemente.push(node[j]);
		}

		for(i=0; i<Elemente.length; i++)
			Elemente[i].name = name + i;
	}

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

With regards to IE running "JScript", you cannot change the name entirely:

Microsoft JScript allows the name to be changed at run time. This does not cause the name in the programming model to change in the collection of elements, but it does change the name used for submitting elements.

See here for more details:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../author/dhtml/reference/properties/name_2.asp

Hope this helps,
Dan