Subj : Re: [ URGENT ] JS error "missing ; before statement"
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Hannes Edinger <edes@chello.at>
Date : Tue Sep 16 2003 08:47 am

thanks brendan,

you are perfectly right - the error always occures, when the name of an 
input begins with a number. after i changed the routine which calculates 
the input-names everything worked fine.

regards,
hannes

Brendan Eich wrote:
> 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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