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May 26th, 2003, 08:42 PM

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Dynamic Referencing

Can I dynamically reference objects, like:

IE
datavar = 'datasource';
dataobj = 'document.all.' + datavar

NS
datavar = 'datasource';
dataobj = document.getElementByID(datavar)

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May 26th, 2003, 11:08 PM

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yup - no problems!

Check out the excellent eval() function - i use it all the time.

datavar = "datasource";
dataobj = eval('document.all.' + datavar)

Tho i think getElementById() is avail on all v5+ browsers?

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May 27th, 2003, 06:17 AM

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You're right Stumpy, you can use getElementById in IE 5+. It works exactly the same as NS and allows you to return the first occurrence of an element with the ID attribute specified.

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