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[Eduardo Plata]

Hi i am using bea weblogic on publishing portlet applications, now my problem is that when i set an id to a tag, the portal appends the name of the porlet among other things... a sample id can be Porlet_4_1wlw-select_key:{actionForm.cdTipoJDC}

To solve that problem i need to use a bea javascript function, getNetuiTagName("myNormalId") and that retreives me the complex id described.

Now i am using:
var availableList = document.getElementById(getNetuiTagName("availableOptions"))

That works great on ie but on mozilla i receive null. I thing that is for the use of { } in the id name. I tried with scape characters \{ \} and the same result.

am I wrong, mozilla doesn't support complex ids?

thanks

[Eric Pascarello]

What is getNetuiTagName? What is that returning?


Also just checking:
Are you usinig mozzila's JavaScript debugger which gives better error messages?

Tools->Web Development->JavaScript Console

[Eduardo Plata]

getNetuiTagName("myNormalId") its a bea weblogic funcion that returns a String like "Porlet_4_1wlw-select_key:{actionForm.cdTipoJDC}"

Using javascript debugger the error is on:
availableList.length

and i am retrieving availableList as:

availableList = document.getElementById(getNetuiTagName("availableOptions"))

Using
availableList = document.forms[0].elements[getNetuiTagName('availableOptions')] it works, but like i am in a portal app, i don't know what form will be ... with the index 0 works only if there is only a form.

[Eduardo Plata]

simplifying my post:

I have this:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="">
  <select name="wlw-select_key:{actionForm.lsCdTemasDisp}" multiple>
   <option value="2">My Option</option>
<option value="1">My Option 1</option>
  </select>
  <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" onMyClick="alert(getElementById('wlw-select_key:{actionForm.lsCdTemasDisp}'))">
</form>

how can i retrieve the select element on mozilla? (like i am using a framework i can't change the name or put something beyond (like the id).