BrowserGetElement and multiple forms

[dpayer]

If we have more than one form on a web page and both forms have an element named "Name", how can we differentiate between the forms with this NB command?

example:

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<form method="POST" name="form1" action="Neobook:SetVar "[MyVar1]" "Value1"">
   <p><input type="text" name="Name" size="20"></p>
   <p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B2"></p>
</form>
<form method="POST" name="form2" action="Neobook:SetVar "[MyVar2]" "Value2"">
   <p><input type="text" name="Name" size="20"></p>
   <p><input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B3"><input type="reset" value="Reset" name="B4"></p>
</form>



David P.

[dec]

Hello,

Doing some test, apparently, the referer command only retrieve the first element of the HTML document. However, maybe you can get more precission using some little JavaScript with the appropiate action. Do you?

[dpayer]

Hello,

Doing some test, apparently, the referer command only retrieve the first element of the HTML document. However, maybe you can get more precission using some little JavaScript with the appropiate action. Do you?

It is never a problem if I am the one who creates the web page. There are ways around it then. I think with javascript, I would 'getelementbyid' and then parse the form's by id. This question came up as I was working on another project where I am using the NB comnand 'BrowserGetElement' and I realized I could not address the issue of multiple forms on a page properly. I had not planned to need parse sections with javascript though.

It is not a priority at this moment. I would like to hear Neosoft's view on how to use the command in a multi-form environment.

Thanks for your input DEC.

David P.

[Gaev]

David P:

You could use BrowserExecScript instead ... navigate to the Form (whose names are unique) ... and then to its child element with name of 'Name' ... then get/set its value.

You can run BrowserExecScript against any document in the Web Browser object ... after it is loaded.

[Neosoft Support]

Currently, there isn't any way to differentiate between multiple elements with the same name using BrowserGetElement. It might be possible to modify BrowserGetElement to do this. We're working on a maintenance update right now. I will see if there is time to address this issue.

[dpayer]

Currently, there isn't any way to differentiate between multiple elements with the same name using BrowserGetElement. It might be possible to modify BrowserGetElement to do this. We're working on a maintenance update right now. I will see if there is time to address this issue.

Thanks for responding. This is not a critical issue at this time. Do not rush to include this on my behalf. It would be good to see it in the future.

David P.

[Tony Kroos]

:facepalm

This is not a critical issue at this time. Do not rush to include this on my behalf. It would be good to see it in the future.

it's not critical at all, you already have everything to get the job done.
1. BrowserExecScript - handle all specified name tags in document (ascending order 0,1...n)

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var x = document.getElementsByName('Name');
alert (x.item(0).value);
alert (x.item(1).value);

2. BrowserExecScript - handle name tags in given form

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var f = document.forms[#91]'[FormName]'[#93]
alert (f.elements[#91]'Name'[#93].value)

or simply

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alert (document.[FormName].Name.value)

dont forget to setvar [FormName] with the name of preferred form first

Let developers pay attention to really important issues (they say that updates coming )

[dpayer]

:facepalm
it's not critical at all, you already have everything to get the job done.

Let developers pay attention to really important issues (they say that updates coming )

Thank you Tony.

David P.

[Tony Kroos]

btw, good article here take a look

[Neosoft Support]

Thanks Tony!