control arrays?

[BeanDog]

Is it possible in DHTML (vbs or js) to create a control array a la VB? Like a bunch of textboxes that are tb[0], tb[1], tb[2], etc? [sig][/sig]

 

[rbobbitt]

Yes you can. However, all of the controls are accessible already through document.forms['formname'].controlname.

Maybe you want to do something that just grabs the text boxes on a page. This is one way you could do it:

function getTextboxes(form_name) {

var tb=new Array();
var i,j;

for (i=0,j=0;i<document.forms[form_name].elements.length;++i) {
if (document.forms[form_name].elements.type==&quot;text&quot {
tb[j++]=document.forms[form_name].elements;
}
}
return tb;
}

This is a pretty basic example, but it should illustrate the point. If you assign the return value of getTextBoxes to a variable, you can then access that variable to make changes to a given text box (the variable holds a reference to the actual text box).

HTH,

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http://home.earthlink.net/~bobbitts>Bobbitt

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