[skirkpatrick]

I am completely new to client side scripting and am a little lost.

I have a user filled form with 13 dropdown lists - the user can pick a maximum of eight values out of the possible 13 dropdowns. I am able to capture the values using document.getElementById("form_line_0_1_1").value, what I am looking to do is to create 8 different variables that I can then use to reformat the text based upon the users selections.

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Steve

[jon.kiparsky]

Moved this to Javascript, where you'll probably get better results.

[skirkpatrick]

I was hoping someone might be able to help me - I know how I would do it server side but that is not an option in this case. But it appears that I have to write some complex code to get it to work. Basically it the first dropdown is selected then it becomes var1 if not look to the second dropdown and see if it has been selected to become var1 and so on. Seems more complex than it needs to be.

if(document.getElementById("pdf_line_0_1_1").value > '') { var var1 = document.getElementById("pdf_line_0_1_1").value } 
if (var1 > ''){ var var2 = document.getElementById("pdf_line_0_1_2").value } else { var var1 =  document.getElementById("pdf_line_0_1_3").value }

Any help or insight would be appreciated,

Steve

[skirkpatrick]

OK - now I kind-of get it - I can use an array to capture the values and then format the array values but I am stuck again.

output = [];
for (var i = 1; i <= 13; i++ ) {  
 output[i] =  "document.getElementById('pdf_line_0_1_" + i + "').value";
   document.write(output[i] + "\n")
} 

My elements are incremented like this:

document.getElementById('pdf_line_0_1_1').value
document.getElementById('pdf_line_0_1_2').value
document.getElementById('pdf_line_0_1_3').value

so the line

output[i] =  "document.getElementById('pdf_line_0_1_" + i + "').value";

gives me the element name and not the value

How can I get the value

Steve