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How to do refer to HTML elements in vbScript?

Hi,

I am conversant in Visual Basic from working on MS Access and just learning VBScript (which seems quite similar).

In Visual Basic, if I want to refer to a control on a form by name, I first establish the Form as an object, then use the name like so:

myForm.controls('myControl").value = "Hello World!"

Let's say that I have a Function in VBScript where I want to pass the id of an input element and then asign a value to it. What wording would I use?

Function chgValues(strID)

MitchellVII

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I guess what I am asking is, what is the VBScript equivalent of the JavaScript document.getElementById?

MitchellVII

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Here's the function and how I think it "should" work, but it doesn't :(

'FUNCTION - Assign Value to Input from Select Choice:
Function strSelectSet(idText,objSelect,strType)

Select case strType
      case "text"
            document.getElementById(idText).value = objSelect.options(text.selectedIndex).text
      case "value"
            document.getElementById(idText).value = objSelect.options(text.selectedIndex).value
end select

End Function

The first case assigns the .text value of the option and the second case assigns the .value value of the option.

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MitchellVII

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On my webform, I am attempting to call this from a <select> element like so:

onChange="strSelectSet('CommuteCity1',this,'text')

Does nothing.

MitchellVII

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golf,

Ah ok, that's likely my problem. Sorry, I am such a noob at all this.

So I can't use VBScipt for anything on an ASP Page done by the user as the fill out the form, that all has to be JavaScript?