help with hidden tables in Internet Explorer

[tezzamatic]

Hi,

I am developing a website that uses a hidden table in a form to pass data by post to the next (php) page. It uses the Javascript function (see below). I have used alert to check the variables delivery_cost and delivery_status are both as they should be. Also this works fine in Firefox but fails to pass the data in Internet Explorer.....any help / work around would be appreciated.
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function hidden_delivery(delivery_cost,delivery_status)
{
delornot.value = delivery_status;
delcost.value = delivery_cost;
}
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Thanks

Terry

[paul_wilkins]

Hi,

I am developing a website that uses a hidden table in a form to pass data by post to the next (php) page. It uses the Javascript function (see below). I have used alert to check the variables delivery_cost and delivery_status are both as they should be. Also this works fine in Firefox but fails to pass the data in Internet Explorer.....any help / work around would be appreciated.
============================================================
function hidden_delivery(delivery_cost,delivery_status)
{
delornot.value = delivery_status;
delcost.value = delivery_cost;
}
============================================================
Thanks

Terry

Where have you declared what the delornot and delcost variables are?

If you have a form with an identifier:

<form id="descriptiveidentifieraboutform" method="post" action="page2.php">
    <input name="delornot" type="hidden">
    <input name="delcost" type="hidden">
    ...
</form>

You can use the form to easily access the form elements within it. JavaScript has an elements property on forms which is used for that.

function hidden_delivery(form, delivery_cost, delivery_status) {
    form.elements.delornot.value = delivery_status;
    form.elements.delcost.value = delivery_cost;
}
 
var form = document.getElementById('descriptiveidentifieraboutform'),
    cost = ...,
    status = ...;
hidden_delivery(form, cost, status);

[tezzamatic]

Thanks... works like a dream, and I learned a bit.

terry