Regarding document object in javascript

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Hi Everybody,

Here is my code:

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<body>
<form name="form1">
<input type=text name="text1" value="">
<script language="JavaScript">
document.form1.text1.value="Hello";
</script>
</form>
</body>
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As shown above, if I use form name to set a value in a text box, it is working fine. But if I use document.Forms(0) as shown below, the value "Hello" is not getting set to that text box. See the following code:

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<body>
<form>
<input type=text name="text1" value="">
<script language="JavaScript">
document.Forms(0).text1.value="Hello";
</script>
</form>
</body>
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Can anybody say what could be the problem?

Thanks
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Shashi

Katrina Owen

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posted 18 years ago

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Hi there Shashi,

There are a couple of things that may be involved.

First, 'Forms(0)' would refer to a function, Forms(), which is taking an argument, 0.

What you need to refer to, is the array containing all forms in the page. To dereference the array, you need to use brackets:

Forms[0]

Also, I don't know on your system, but on mine, Forms[0] doesn't exist. I need to refer to it using all lower case:

forms[0]

But from experience, case-sensitivity may vary from platform to platform.

Shashi Kala

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