162662 - JavaScript ChangeValueGROUP does not work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Tobias]

Hello all,

I have an internal web page (so no access for you, sorry), where some script is
not working (but it does on IE). It lets you choose some values out of a
drop-down list and the value you selected will be put into a HTML form field. We
can select the value, but it will not be put in the specific form field. Script
is working with IE and Opera, but not with Mozilla Mozilla 1.1b
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721.

This is interesting part of it:

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function ChangeValueGROUP () {
	formular.group_new.value = formular.group.value ;
}

//-->
</script>

Thanks,

Tobias

Comment 1

[Olivier Cahagne]

can you produce a testcase ?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is by no means critical and has nothing to do with the JS engine.

I would be willing to bet money that the page has

<form name="formular">

or

<form id="formular">

and that form is being accessed as "formular" instead of "document.formular". 
The former will work in IE and Opera only, the latter will work in all browsers
that support scripting usefully.

Comment 3

[Tobias]

yep, thats it. Thanks for your help!

Comment 4

[Jim Ley]

Minor note, but "document.formular" will not work in all browsers that support 
scripting, the correct DOM 0 reference and succesful for all browsers that have 
any form capability would be document.forms['formular'] or 
document.forms.formula.