Unless jQuery 1.3 has made vast improvement in the "name=Xxx"
functionality, it is *horrendously slow*! I use a custom function to
access form-fields - $F("fieldName") - which is up to 1000-times
faster on large pages in my web-application. But this method is
dependant on other custom methods, so I cannot provide it here as a
stand-alone plug-in..
I wish/hope jQuery will soon provide an efficient way to access form-
fields 'by name' because using IDs on form-fields is a clumsy hack
that I refuse to use except in special cases. On complex, dynamically
generated form pages, it clutters the code and requires extra logic to
add sequential IDs to things like radio buttons. So this is not a
proper solution to a common need.
/Kevin
On Feb 6, 2:27 pm, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Without using IDs, you can use:
>
> var myVar = $("input[name=myHiddenInput]").val();
>
> On Feb 6, 10:54 am, james <noahk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi,
>
> > If I have a form:
>
> > <form name="myForm" method="post" action="myAction.php"
> > onsubmit="javascript:doStuff()">
> > <input type="hidden" name="myHiddenInput"/>
> > <input type="text" name="myNonHiddenText"/>
> > <input type="submit" value="submit">
> > </form>
>
> > What is the equivalent JQuery syntax for the following?
>
> > function doStuff() {
> > document.myForm.myHiddenInput.value = 'some dynamic var';
> > return true;
>
> > }
>
> > Thanks in advance,
> > James- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
