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How to change name of radio button on cloning

Hi to All,

I would just like to ask, why is it that I am not able to change the name of RADIO button when I'm cloning its element? I was successful in cloning the textbox as well as other elements but I'm having problems with radio buttons. Do you have any suggetions on this? I have copied part of the javascript and the table in jsp for your perusal. I badly need some answers please help. thanks

var myCtr = 1;
var idName = 1;
function addNames() {

      if (myCtr < MAX_APPLICATIONS){

            var tableName = "MyTable";
            var trIdPostFix = "trName";
            var radioName = "myRB";

            var tableGroup = document.getElementById(tableName);
            var tableBody = tableGroup.getElementsByTagName("tbody");
            var trElem = tableGroup.getElementsByTagName("tr");
            var trSrcObj;
            var trCloneObj;
            idName++;
            myCtr++;

            //get id of tr
            if (trElem.length > 0) {
                  //1 -- Gender Name - TH
                  //2 -- Gender / Sex
                  trSrcObj = trElem[1];
            }

            //cloneNode
            trCloneObj = trSrcObj.cloneNode(true);
            trCloneObj.id = idName + trIdPostFix;

            var inputElem = trCloneObj.getElementsByTagName("input");
            for (var i=0; i<inputElem.length; i++) {
                  if ((inputElem[i].type) == "text") {
                        inputElem[i].value = "namecount -- " + i;
                  }
                  if ((inputElem[i].type) == "radio") {
                        inputElem[i].name = radioName + i;
                  }
            }


            alert("Name Count is -- " + myCtr);
            //append tr to tbody
            tableBody[0].appendChild(trCloneObj);
      }
}

THIS IS THE PART OF THE JSP PAGE:

<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="80%" id="myTable">
<tbody>
<tr>
      <th colspan="4">Gender</th>
</tr>

<tr id="1trName" style="background-color:#edeff0">
      <td><input type="text" name="myNamesIndex" style="width:300px;" maxlength="50" class=inputText size="50" onblur="this.value=this.value.toUpperCase();">
      <td valign="middle" width="8%" align="center">
            <input type="radio" name="myRB1" value="Male">
      </td>
      <td valign="middle" width="8%" align="center">
            <input type="radio" name="myRB1" value="Female">
      </td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<div style="text-align:right;width:500px;">
<html:img border="0" onclick="addNames();" page="/images/add_btn.gif"/>
</div>

third

the name of the radio button doesn't change 'coz you are not actually changing it. i added the 'myCtr' variable to name of the radio button below.

var inputElem = trCloneObj.getElementsByTagName("input");
for (var i=0; i<inputElem.length; i++) {
if ((inputElem[i].type) == "text") {
inputElem[i].value = "namecount -- " + i;
}
if ((inputElem[i].type) == "radio") {
inputElem[i].name = radioName + myCtr + i;
}
}

-----------------------

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<script>
var myCtr = 1;
var idName = 1;
var MAX_APPLICATIONS = 10;
function addNames() {

if (myCtr < MAX_APPLICATIONS){

var tableName = "MyTable";
var trIdPostFix = "trName";
var radioName = "myRB";

var tableGroup = document.getElementById(tableName);
var tableBody = tableGroup.getElementsByTagName("tbody");
var trElem = tableGroup.getElementsByTagName("tr");
var trSrcObj;
var trCloneObj;
idName++;
myCtr++;

//get id of tr
if (trElem.length > 0) {
//1 -- Gender Name - TH
//2 -- Gender / Sex
trSrcObj = trElem[1];
}

//cloneNode
trCloneObj = trSrcObj.cloneNode(true);
trCloneObj.id = idName + trIdPostFix;

var inputElem = trCloneObj.getElementsByTagName("input");
for (var i=0; i<inputElem.length; i++) {
if ((inputElem[i].type) == "text") {
inputElem[i].value = "namecount -- " + i;
}
if ((inputElem[i].type) == "radio") {
inputElem[i].name = radioName + myCtr + i;
alert(inputElem[i].name);
}
}

alert("Name Count is -- " + myCtr);
//append tr to tbody
tableBody[0].appendChild(trCloneObj);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="80%" id="myTable">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th colspan="4">Gender</th>
</tr>

<tr id="1trName" style="background-color:#edeff0">
<td><input type="text" name="myNamesIndex" style="width:300px;" maxlength="50" class=inputText size="50" onblur="this.value=this.value.toUpperCase();">
<td valign="middle" width="8%" align="center">
<input type="radio" name="myRB1" value="Male">
</td>
<td valign="middle" width="8%" align="center">
<input type="radio" name="myRB1" value="Female">
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

<div style="text-align:right;width:500px;"><input type="button" value="Add Name" onclick="addNames();" >
</div>
</body>
</html>

third

hmm, to enable grouping of radio button per row, we should take out the 'i' so instead of

inputElem[i].name = radioName + myCtr + i;

use,

inputElem[i].name = radioName + myCtr;

savidlab

ASKER

yeah your right, I've used

inputElem[i].name = radioName + myCtr;

to append the number to the name of the radio button BUT

when I view the radio buttons on the jsp page, it is correctly saying that the name of the radio button is diffrent from the other using an onclick event on each radio button: onclick="alert(this.name)";

You're right it does change the name but STILL when I click the radio button it doesn't select the gender per row but used the same name for all radio buttons

SO,

i decided to find out by using ---> alert(trCloneObj.innerHTML);

and it shows that it really did not change the name of the radio button

i have found out from a site that radio buttons can't be clone

but do you know a way that i could really change the name of the radio button in any other way ?

Please it would answer everything I need if one would give me an answer.

Thanks

third

my experiment shows that changing the name of the radio button works in FF but not IE. i have this simple code.

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Author: Third Santor</title>
<script>
function changeRadioName(obj){
for(var i=0; i<obj.length; i++){
       if(obj.elements[i].type=='radio'){
       if(i>1){
       obj.elements[i].name = 'rad2';
            }
            alert(obj.elements[i].name);
       }
      }
}
</script>
</head>
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<form name="form1" method="post" action="" onsubmit="">
<input type="radio" name="rad1">
<input type="radio" name="rad1">
<input type="radio" name="rad1">
<input type="radio" name="rad1">
<input type="button" value="Click" onclick="changeRadioName(this.form);">
</form>
</body>
</html>

probably a browser issue. i'll try to find a workaround on your problem...

third

"probably a browser issue"

should be

"it is actually a browser issue"

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savidlab

ASKER

wow this is great. It works fine. Just one more thing though, how can I still catch the value of the names after I submitted and I click the back button of the browser. I've noticed that whenever I submitted the form and click the back button the only thing that is being shown is the first name and not the rest of the names that I added. I know this is too much to ask but it is a great challenge to you gaus and gals. :)

savidlab

ASKER

sorry 'guys' and gals..