"because the other programmer used different names to call them singularly because of some issue with IE 6 & 7"
technically he *created* an issue with IE since the radio buttons are not grouped so that the user can only select one in the bunch of them (if that's what you want, but you don't make that clear or not) "how could i return something to use with GetElementByName" Charlie pointed that out, you've got "this", which represents the DOM object itself, and "this.name" which is the name parameter On Sep 2, 4:17 pm, "gilberto.ramosoton" <gilberto.ramoso...@gmail.com> wrote: > My radio buttons dont have the same name because the other programmer > used different names to call them singularly because of some issue > with IE 6 & 7. Ok What would like to have is the radio button's name, > the one that got clicked, how could i return something to use with > GetElementByName,