VB Script: Text Object Value

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May 3rd, 2011, 01:46 PM

ecit12

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VB Script: Text Object Value

I'm not sure if this is possible but this is what I'm trying to accomplish.

I have a dynamic number of HTML text boxes that I generate, and i is the iteration number.

vb Code:

Original - vb Code
<input type=""text"" name=""IntfNm"&i & """ size=""20"">

<input type=""text"" name=""IntfNm"&i & """ size=""20"">

next I'm trying to extract the value of the text field and write it to a file. This is where I'm having an issue.

vb Code:

Original - vb Code
intfNmVar ="IntfNm"&i objTextFile.Write(intfNmVar.Value)

intfNmVar ="IntfNm"&i
objTextFile.Write(intfNmVar.Value)

It doesn't like the last line. I'm extracting the value of the text field instead of the HTML text object.

Any suggestions?

May 7th, 2011, 11:30 PM

ecit12

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Solution

So here is the solution to the problem.

Instead of name, I use ID

vb Code:

Original - vb Code
<input type=""text"" id=""IntfNm"&i & """ size=""20"">

<input type=""text"" id=""IntfNm"&i & """ size=""20"">

and to retrieve the value I use the following code.

vb Code:

Original - vb Code
intfNmVar ="IntfNm"&i objTextFile.Write(document.getElementById(intfNmVar).Value)

intfNmVar ="IntfNm"&i 
objTextFile.Write(document.getElementById(intfNmVar).Value)

May 7th, 2011, 11:50 PM

ecit12

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Solution

to make this work you need to use the ID instead of NAME in the input element.

VB Code:

Original - VB Code
<input type=""text"" id=""IntfNm"&i & """ size=""20"">

<input type=""text"" id=""IntfNm"&i & """ size=""20"">

Then use the method getElementByID

VB Code:

Original - VB Code
intfNmVar="IntfNm"&i objTextFile.Write(document.getElementById(intfNmVar).Value)

intfNmVar="IntfNm"&i
objTextFile.Write(document.getElementById(intfNmVar).Value)

May 8th, 2011, 05:50 PM

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VB Script: Text Object Value

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