[Greasemonkey] Refrencing a field name without form name

[A. Alfred Ayache]

Yes, but if you gave the form element an ID, it would return the form object.

A. Alfred Ayache
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Vectorspace wrote:
> getElementById('fieldname') will return the field element, not the form
> 
> rejectpenguin wrote:
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> So if I use getelementbyid it will return the form?
>>
>> So I could use something like:
>>
>> var formname = getElementById('fieldname');
>>
>> would this work?
>>
>>
>> Rod McGuire wrote:
>>  
>>> Quoting rejectpenguin <rejectpenguin at gmail.com>:
>>>    
>>>> Yeah thats my question.. Is it possible to refrence a javascript field
>>>> name
>>>> without the form name.
>>>>
>>>> Example normally I would refrence it like this:
>>>> document.form.fieldname.value = "100";
>>>>
>>>> but what if there is no form name?
>>>>       
>>> Please read http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6257
>>> All of it, but especially see Pitfall #3:
>>>
>>> Most people attach an 'id="fieldIDxxx"' onto the field, and then 
>>> access it
>>> by
>>> .getElementById('fieldIDxxx') or use XPath.
>>>
>>>
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