simple getElementById question

[786snow]

Hi,

I have a texbox called startdate in my HTML. How can I use variable in my document.getElementById, instead of hardcoding it. I tried the
following but it did not work, saying object required





var date= "startdate";

if ((document.getElementById('+date+').value.match(RegExPattern)) && (document.getElementById('+date+').value!='')) {

 

[kaht]

take out the quotes and plusses - those are used for string concatenation and are not needed for what you're doing:

if ((document.getElementById([!]date[/!]).value.match(RegExPattern)) && (document.getElementById([!]date[/!]).value!='')) {

-kaht

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[786snow]

thanks a lot