Q1591 How can I find out what kind of object a particular form field is?

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Q1591 How can I find out what kind of object a particular form field is?

In Netscape Navigator 3+ and Internet Explorer 4+ (i.e. JavaScript 1.2) you can interrogate the form field's type property:

<form name="myForm">
<input type="text">
<input type="radio">
<input type="checkbox">
</form>

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
var o = '';
if (document.myForm.elements[0].type)
  for (i=0;i < document.myForm.elements.length;i++) 
    o += document.myForm.elements[i].type + '\n';

alert(o);
//--></script>

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• January 18, 2002 at 04:37:40: Ramya