recursive programming problem using checkboxes

[CaptainSensible]

Hello,
I'm having trouble with a function using recursive programming to uncheck checkboxes, organized as a tree, with parents, child...

As an example:

<LI class=&quot;Collection-LI-first&quot;>
<INPUT type=&quot;checkbox&quot; name=&quot;common&quot; value=&quot;common&quot; tabindex=&quot;debut+3&quot; id=&quot;3&quot; parentid=&quot;0&quot; onclick=&quot;doOnClick(this)&quot;>common</INPUT>
<BR></BR>
</LI>
<UL>
<LI class=&quot;Collection-LI-first&quot;>
<INPUT type=&quot;checkbox&quot; name=&quot;classes&quot; value=&quot;classes&quot; tabindex=&quot;debut+4&quot; id=&quot;4&quot; parentid=&quot;3&quot; onclick=&quot;doOnClick(this)&quot;>classes</INPUT>
<BR></BR>
</LI>
<UL></UL>
<LI class=&quot;Collection-LI-first&quot;>
<INPUT type=&quot;checkbox&quot; name=&quot;lib&quot; value=&quot;lib&quot; tabindex=&quot;debut+5&quot; id=&quot;5&quot; parentid=&quot;3&quot; onclick=&quot;doOnClick(this)&quot;>lib</INPUT>
<BR></BR>
</LI>
<UL></UL>
</UL>

So I use this function to uncheck all the childs, and childs of the childs... but somewhere there is a problem with the pointers and it leads to unexepected behavior.

function ClearChildren(checkboxId) {
for (i=eval(debut); i<collection.elements.length; i++){
var temp=collection.elements;
if (eval(temp.parentid) == eval(checkboxId)){ temp.checked=false;
if (hasChildren(temp)) ClearChildren(temp.id);}
}
}

Could anyone help me out? Thanks in advance.

 

[SashiRaveendran]

whats debut?

whats parentid, is this actually a tag attribute?

wheres the haschildren and clearchildren functions?

whats the error message and what line is it pointing to?

 

[CaptainSensible]

Sorry,
debut is just an integer value (=0); yes, id and parentid, are tag attributes, wich I use to make the tree structure.
hasChildren is just a small simple function wich looks if there are other checkboxes with a parentid==id, (no problem with it)
clearChildren is the recursive call;
In fact there are no error messages, but the
For example, with this html code:

<LI class=&quot;Collection-LI-first&quot;>
<INPUT type=&quot;checkbox&quot; name=&quot;webapps&quot; value=&quot;webapps&quot; tabindex=&quot;debut+12&quot; id=&quot;12&quot; parentid=&quot;0&quot; onclick=&quot;doOnClick(this)&quot;>webapps</INPUT>
<BR></BR>
</LI>
<UL>
<LI class=&quot;Collection-LI-first&quot;>
<INPUT type=&quot;checkbox&quot; name=&quot;examples&quot; value=&quot;examples&quot; tabindex=&quot;debut+13&quot; id=&quot;13&quot; parentid=&quot;12&quot; onclick=&quot;doOnClick(this)&quot;>examples</INPUT>
<BR></BR>
</LI>
<UL>
<LI class=&quot;Collection-LI-first&quot;>
<INPUT type=&quot;checkbox&quot; name=&quot;images&quot; value=&quot;images&quot; tabindex=&quot;debut+14&quot; id=&quot;14&quot; parentid=&quot;13&quot; onclick=&quot;doOnClick(this)&quot;>images</INPUT>
<BR></BR>
</LI>
<UL></UL>
<LI class=&quot;Collection-LI-first&quot;>
<INPUT type=&quot;checkbox&quot; name=&quot;jsp&quot; value=&quot;jsp&quot; tabindex=&quot;debut+15&quot; id=&quot;15&quot; parentid=&quot;13&quot; onclick=&quot;doOnClick(this)&quot;>jsp</INPUT>
<BR></BR>
</LI>
<UL>

If &quot;images&quot; and &quot;jsp&quot; are checked, a click on the ancestor webapps would clear all the children checlboxes. In fact, only &quot;images&quot; is cleared. So it seems, the context is lost because after the return from the recursive call, the rest of the &quot;for&quot; loop is not executed. If I don't do the recursive call, the for loop is correctly executed and all the children on the same level are unchecked. I hope my english is understandable! If not, I'll try to explain more.
Thank you.

 

[CaptainSensible]

Ok, sorry, it was just a minor problem:

for (i=eval(debut); i<collection.elements.length; i++){
...

I forgot to write &quot;var&quot;!!

for (VAR i=eval(debut); i<collection.elements.length; i++){
...

I didn't know I had to do this.
Ok, thanks for the interest. Good day!