howdoi:access form elements by type

[cpanon]

Hello
Is it possible to access form elements particularly, radio buttons, radio
button groups, checkboxes, and others, exclusively by the input type in a loop?
I know I can access the individual form elements as part of the form array of
elements,, but the input type is an explicit text field that I dont know how to
loop over. I only want this for the elements in a form, which will be in a
table with a standard input/cancel button. tia

[rob::db]

I don't think this is included with the POST data. A possible workaround is
to include a hidden field for each normal feild you have, and include a
name/type pair in it's value.



cpanon wrote:

> Hello
> Is it possible to access form elements particularly, radio buttons,
> radio button groups, checkboxes, and others, exclusively by the input
> type in a loop? I know I can access the individual form elements as
> part of the form array of elements,, but the input type is an
> explicit text field that I dont know how to loop over. I only want
> this for the elements in a form, which will be in a table with a
> standard input/cancel button. tia

[cpanon]

Hi Rob
I think I found it con the client side getElementsByTag, very neat. However I
now have a further problem. I am trying to script the label tag. I can create
an array of the label tags on the form, get its length which is correct, but I
cant get any of the attributes out. My code looks like this:

function getTag() {
var tags = document.getElementsByTagName("label");
document.getElementById("output").value = tags[0].id.value;
}
I REALLY want to get at the label text or the for attribute. However
everything comes up with undefined. Which of course it isnt. There is label
text, as CData between the start and end tag and there is a defined unique Id=.
Can anyone help? tia.