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Mar 22.2003

I want to see the contents of a formfield by passing the formfield-name to a function. I just can’t seem to get it working.

See code below…

function postThis(fieldName) {
alert(document.myForm.fieldName.value);
}

<form name=”myForm” action=”nextPage.htm”>
<input type=”text” name=”firstname”>
</form>
<a href=”javascript:postThis(‘firstname’);”>show fistname</a>

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@requestcodeMar 22.2003 — Try this example:

<html>

<head>

<title>Check URL</title>

<script language="JavaScript">

function postThis(fieldname) {

alert(eval("document.myForm."+fieldname+".value"));

}

</script>

</head>

<body>

<form name="myForm">

<input type="text" name="firstname" size="20">

</form>

<a href="javascript:postThis('firstname');">show fistname</a>

</body>

</html>

Your problem was that the script was treating it as a value of 'firstname' rather than the field name. You can use the eval() method to create a JavaScript statement from that.
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@michelleauthorMar 22.2003 — Thanks a million!

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