dissecting an array into array help

[CompOp]

Hi, thank you for looking at this post.

I am trying to make my form validation more dynamic, I have never tried to take elements from one array befor and place them in another to be read back to the browser. I am still kinda new to this although I do have an ok grasp on php still noobie at that to I guess, I have seen a similiar thing accomplished in php, however I would like to accomplish my form validation on client side (the way it should be).

2. var Element=new Array("mytext","mytext1","mytext2");
3. var BadData=new Array();
4. var i=0;
5. var v=0;
6. while (i<=2)
7. {
8. var myTextField = document.getElementById("Element");
9. if (myTextField.value.length == 0)
10. {
11. BadData[v]=Ellement;
12. i++;
13. v++;
14. }
15. else
16. {
17. i++;
18. }
19. }

The problem is on line 9 char 2 I keep getting an error of object required. Im kinda stuck on this any help would be appriciated. Please let me know if I have not givenen enough information.

 

[vacunita]

Your issues stem from here:

var myTextField = document.getElementById("Element[i]");

What you are saying here is get the element with an id that is the literal string "Element" But I doubt you have an element in your page with an ID like:

<input type="text" id="Element[i]">

Since what I assume you want is to make it grab your element IDs from your original array, you need pass the array as such and not as a literal string. Remove your quotes around Element in your getElementById call.

var myTextField = document.getElementById([red]Element[i][/red]);

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[CompOp]

sweet that kinda fixed it script works, not the results i was hopping for but atleast it works.
Results of the script runing are:
please fill in the following feildsElementElementElement

which the desired results I was hoping for was supposed to be:
please fill in the following feildstexttext1text2.

Its all good though I think I know where I went wrong, used regular when I should have used premium... or maybe I should be reading the "element" array into a veriable prior to adding it to the "baddata" array.

Vacunita or phil I am much appriciative of your help with this I would have been lost without it. Many thanx.

 

[vacunita]

Probably the extra L in your variable here:

BadData[v]=El[red]l[/red]ement[i];

Should be only one L as per your variable.



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Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

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