JS help

hussey

hey guys

I have a <fieldset> lump of html code
and I want to override certain values via JS
e.g.

<form .... name="addressForm" id="addressForm"...>
<fieldset>
<dl class="fsText">
   <dt>Street address:</dt>
   <dd>12/20 Sussex Street</dd>
   <dt>Suburb/ city:</dt>
   <dd>Parramatta</dd>
   <dt>State:</dt>
   <dd>NSW</dd>
   <dt>Postcode:</dt>
   <dd>2765</dd>
   <dt>Country:</dt>
  <dd>Australia</dd>
</dl>
</fieldset>
</form>

what happens, is when a user clicks on a button a popup will appear
and will use an address searcher and return values
the old way was to use <input> and overwrite the values.
but the new way is to use <dd> .. but I'm not sure how I would

the old way was : using the 'opener' method
opener.myForm.Address[0].value = "street name"
Address[0] was a input field
so I am just wondering can I target the <dd> fields?
I know there are easier ways to do this, but I'm stuck with politics
:-)

ron_darrell

Two options - give each dd an id/name and reference the appropriate one by document.getElementById(idname).innerHTML or document.getElementByName(idname).innerHTML

Alternatively, use document.getElementsByTagName('dd') (which will return an array of indexes to all the dd tags on the page. Count down to the one you wish to change and access the array to make the change.

Personally, I would not use dl or dd (I just don't like the way ti lays out the data) but this may be out of your hands.

Best of luck

-RD