Subj : Re: [ URGENT ] JS error "missing ; before statement"
To   : hannes.edinger@gmx.at
From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Mon Sep 15 2003 04:54 pm

hannes.edinger@gmx.at wrote:

> hello!
>
> i'm using mozilla 1.4 for linux (the "official" precompiled release), 
> and i've a problem with a small javascript which is supposed to be 
> executed after the onclick-event of a checkbox.
>
> that's the part of the html-code where the error occures:
> [-- cut --]
> <input type="hidden" name="0ae48c0f5f12c04250879948ad6679dc" value="0"/>
> <input type="checkbox" name="dummy0ae48c0f5f12c04250879948ad6679dc" 
> onClick="this.form.0ae48c0f5f12c04250879948ad6679dc.value=(this.checked)?'1':'0';"/> 
>


JS identifiers cannot start with a numeric character.  In a property 
reference such as form.x, x must be an identifier, lexically.  To 
reference a property not named by a lexical identifier, use subscripting:

onClick="this.form['0ae48c0f5f12c04250879948ad6679dc'].value=(this.checked)?'1':'0';"/> 


> the html-code is server-generated and the routine which creates the 
> checkbox and the hidden input is used in many other cases where the 
> generated code works properly.


Does the generated identifier always start with a numeric character such 
as '0', as shown above?  What about the 
"dummy0ae48c0f5f12c04250879948ad6679dc" id?  That's a valid lexical 
identifier, and so should all others that the server code generates.  
Can you fix the server code?

>
> the generated code always works pretty fine in other browsers.


I greatly doubt that.

/be

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