question about arrays

[newman]

hi everybody .
i'm wonderin' if there's any way to pass HTML array fields to a JS function as a parameter .
suppose i have 3 HTML fields :

<input type="text" name="friends[]" value="tom">
<input type="text" name="friends[]" value="richard">
<input type="text" name="friends[]" value="nick">

now i wanna pass these 3 elements to a JS function .
i tried MyFunction(friends[]) but i got an error .
can any one help me .
thank you before hand .

[fenway]

I don't know what you mean by "pass an element a function".

[extrovertive]

Just do something like this.

var obj = document.form.elements;
and then loop through obj searching for a type that matches "text"and get the value of it.

[newman]

sorry , i asked my question badly.
i meat the values of elements.
like PHP we pass an array to a function :

[code]
$friends=array('tom','rich','nick');
MyFunction($friends);
[/code]

now i wanna do it in JS .
i have these fields values:

[code]<input type="text" name="friends[]" value="tom">
<input type="text" name="friends[]" value="rich">
<input type="text" name="friends[]" value="nick">[/code]

how can I pass these values to a JS function as a parameter.

[fenway]

As was mentioned earlier, if you iterate though .length of this element, you should be able to get at the values.

[newman]

thanks .
but how can i count this elements . how to know how many fields i have ?
in here how many fields named friends[] .
thanks again

[fenway]

This collection has a length property for this purpose for checkboxes.

[newman]

god bless you ,i dont know why you dont explain it with an example . i'm not a pro .
i tried this :  document.MyForm.friends.length but i got an error .

[fenway]

Your form field is called "friends[]", not "friends".