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Accessing form hidden field value

 
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I'm trying to access the values from these hidden fields from my JavaScript:

Here is my JavaScript:

I get the JavaScript error 'form.documentTypes' is not an object. I'm using IE 5.
Thanks in advance.
John
 
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Because you are using the [] notation in your element names, Javascript thinks that documentTypes is an array reference.
You either need to remove the brackets from the name, or use another mechanism to reference the elements (i.e. getElementbyIdm eval, etc.)
hth,
bear
 
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Thanks Bear...
Like you said, I used another notation:
 
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