278435 - nfi-info.net - document.elementName

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Andrew Allison]

The calculator at this URL has default values, which are entered when using IE
but not when using Firefox. Not only reproducible, but I have confirmed that
others have the same problem.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

It's using preDefValsPicker.selectedIndex to access the chosen value for a
select element, which amounts to document.preDefValsPicker, which is the
IE-proprietary way of accessing any form element by name in the global (ly
polluted) document namespace.

Comment 2

[Andrew Allison]

How should it be done?

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

It appears this page does not properly nest the <select> inside of a form. In
fact the page doesn't even have a form.

Typically you would write the html like

<form name="someForm" ...>
  <select name="someSelect">
  ...
  </select>
</form>

Can you contact them asking them to fix their page?
then in using the HTML DOM you would reference the someSelect select element like:
document.forms.someForm.someSelect

There are other ways, but that is fairly common.

Comment 4

[Andrew Allison]

Many thanks. I've forwarded the immediately preceeding comment to them. I'm too
new to change status. Maybe there should be a "another IE non-conformity" status ;>)

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

-> confirm