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How to get working an html tag array (name="test[]") in javascript and php

Sep 30th, 2002 15:49
Alex Dean, atu, Jenni Koskenpää, Ashish Chamoli, Alex Dean

Here are some responses to when I posted the same problem...  You can
refer to the select element by number instead of name in JS, but this
quickly becomes a problem because it breaks every time you add a form
input above the select.



I want to name a SELECT 'someSelect[]' for PHP, but I think the '[]' 
are illegal in JS.  Help.
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/16885
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Just add

ID="ListBoxName"

to your existing listbox, after alteration which will look like :

Name="ListBoxName[]" ID="ListBoxName"

and thereafter it will solve the problem of different names for 
JavaScript and PHP.

Take Care,
Ashish Chamoli
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Above doesn't work with Netscape so I prefer naming your script like 
below: 

<select name="var[]" multiple>

And Javascript like: 

variable = documents.forms[0].elements['var[]'];

See more help: http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php

-Jenni