Today, I would like to share the way of handling array of HTML FORM elements using JavaScript and PHP.Well, it’s very easy to get the data from the array of HTML form elements in PHP and using them but in JavaScript it’s a bit tricky to handle the ar…

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Sethu

My deepest thanks for this article!

When the array have only one value, you must get the hidden field by its id, in this case, the field must have its id equal its name. Like this:

When we going to acces its value, we have to do a try catch, like this:

try{
myvar = document.myform.elements['namefield[]‘][index].value;
}catch(e){
myvar = document.getElementById(‘namefield[]‘).value;
}

With this I resolved my problem, I hope that I had help.

PS: Sorry about the gramatical errors, I’m still learning english.

Does anyone have de solution?

thanks

<input type=”text” name=”data[1][name]” value=”name one”>
<input type=”text” name=”data[2][name]” value=”name two”>
<input type=”text” name=”data[3][name]” value=”name three”>

how can I access it with JavaScript?

Thanks for providing this. Can you provide some useful tips like using ‘array of HTML Form Elements’ for writing code which can be very flexible in dealing large forms and whose fields may change dynamically.

What should i do first to get javascript can read those html array??? Please help..

Raju