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How to reference a FORM in a layer/positioned element?

How to reference a FORM in a layer/positioned element?

Feb 9th, 2000 08:37
Martin Honnen,

Usually (without positioning) you reference a form in cross browser way 
as
  document.formName
This keeps working with IE4/5 and NN6 when the form is contained inside 
a positioned element/layer but doesn't work with NN4 as NN4 gives every 
layer/positioned element its own document. So for NN4 you need to 
reference the layer first which is
  window.document.layerID
and then the document/form inside the layer as
  window.document.layerID.document.formName
Note that nested layers require nested layer references so for two 
nested layers you get
  window.document.outerLayerID.document.innerLayerId.document.formName