Netui generated element names

Question

The netui:textarea tag (and others like it) produce html element names (as in "<textarea
name="...">) that can contain square brackets and curly braces. For example:
{actionForm.someObject.otherObjects[3].description}
Element names of this form cause problems with javascript expressions that attempt
to refer to those elements. It is no longer possible to use an expression of the
form:
document.whateverForm.whateverTextArea
when the value <someTextAreaElement> is something like the above because it resolves
to:
document.whateverForm.{actionForm.somObject.otherObjects[3].description}
which is not legal Javascript syntax (due to curly braces)...
Has anyone run into this? What's the work around? Thanks.
Dave

Answer 1

Dave -
Have you tried the named-value de-referencing style in the JavaScript, e.g.
document.whateverForm['{actionForm.somObject.otherObjects[3].description}']
I don't know if it will work witha form object, but it's a thought.
Greg
Dave Muirhead wrote:
The netui:textarea tag (and others like it) produce html element names (as in "<textarea
name="...">) that can contain square brackets and curly braces. For example:
{actionForm.someObject.otherObjects[3].description}
Element names of this form cause problems with javascript expressions that attempt
to refer to those elements. It is no longer possible to use an expression of the
form:
document.whateverForm.whateverTextArea
when the value <someTextAreaElement> is something like the above because it resolves
to:
document.whateverForm.{actionForm.somObject.otherObjects[3].description}
which is not legal Javascript syntax (due to curly braces)...
Has anyone run into this? What's the work around? Thanks.
Dave