[SOLVED] in IE .value works, in Netscape not

[Jim from Oakland]

phreaks

I am a total hacker in javascript!  In IE I get the value of a hidden input as shown.  In Netscape the last statement chokes. What syntax might I try?

pItemIndex = 1;
sValueFieldName = 'Item' + pItemIndex + 'Price';
oValueField = document.getElementById(sValueFieldName);
dValue = oValueField.value;

[fenway]

Post the page code snippet so we can see for ourselves... I"m confused.

[Jim from Oakland]

fenway

Thanks for offering to assist.  I'm not sure how to be more clear. That is the exact code.  It is in a longer js function that does the same thing several times. The entire funciton works fine in IE but in Navagator it does not.

I am merely looking to get the value from a hidden input field. In my example the hidden field name is Item1Price
<input type="hidden" name="Item1Price" value=12.99>

How do I retrieve the value 12.99?

Note: pItemIndex is an integer.

[fenway]

I don't see an ID attribute on that INPUT -- neither does Navigator.  If IE does, well, that's an accident.  Use the .forms collection and use the NAME, or add an ID.

[Jim from Oakland]

Thanks again fenway!

Need id Indeed!  I typed the example hidden input tag in the previous post rather than say copying it from the html source.  Here is what I have in the html source.

<INPUT type="hidden"
name="Item1Price"
id="Item1Price"
value=60.5>

<INPUT type="hidden"
name="Item1Qty"
id="Item1Qty"
value=0>

I am NOT using a form, just a few input (events) that js responds to. Might that be THE solution?

[fenway]

Didn't even realize that INPUTs were valid outside of FORMs.

[Jim from Oakland]

I found the error.  It DID relate to a field with a name attribute but not an id attribute. FYIyou can indeed useinputs that are notin a form.  The must have an ide attribute though.