Control Reference

Okay, I give up. I've tried searching every possible term I could think of.
But I cannot find a site that provides a reference to members of various
HTML controls.

In this particular case, I'm trying to read the value of the selected item
in a dropdownlist control. But I'm also interested in where one goes to find
this type of information on their own.

Thanks for any tips.

Jonathan


__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4211 (20090702) __________

The message was checked by ESET Smart Security.

http://www.eset.com

On Jul 2, 10:56*pm, "Jonathan Wood" <jw... (AT) softcircuits (DOT) com> wrote:

Okay, I give up.

Fair enough. I'll send an emissary with the terms.

I've tried searching every possible term I could think of.
But I cannot find a site that provides a reference to members of various
HTML controls.

Properties of DOM objects? MSDN and MDC are a good start.

[snip]

Jonathan Wood wrote:

Okay, I give up. I've tried searching every possible term I could think of.

By virtue of listing the used search terms here you could have been told if
they even made sense.

But I cannot find a site that provides a reference to members of various
HTML controls.

You mean _properties_ of _HTML DOM objects_? In addition to what David
said, those can also be found in the W3C DOM Level 2 HTML Specification.
Only there they are named attributes and methods because the Spec defines
interfaces to be implemented by host objects.

As for the Mozilla Developer Center (MDC), last I checked the Gecko DOM
Reference there it was a bit scarce on form controls; you are better off
with XULPlanet or the XUL Reference and W3C DOM 2 HTML.

In this particular case, I'm trying to read the value of the selected item
in a dropdownlist control. [...]

(There is no "dropdownlist control", there is a `select' element.)
Discussed here ad nauseam:

/* Reference to the `select' element object */
var s = ...;

s.options[s.selectedIndex]

[borken sig]

It would be better for you to disable virus checking for sending text-only
Usenet messages if you can.


PointedEars
--
var bugRiddenCrashPronePieceOfJunk = (
navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1
&& navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Mac') != -1
) // Plone, register_function.js:16

On Jul 3, 3:56*am, "Jonathan Wood" <jw... (AT) softcircuits (DOT) com> wrote:

Okay, I give up. I've tried searching every possible term I could think of.

In this particular case, I'm trying to read the value of the selected item
in a dropdownlist control. But I'm also interested in where one goes to find
this type of information on their own.

Jonathan

Try 'get selected value javascript'

Graham Vincent