disable an object created by custom control on client-side

[lamy]

suppose i made a custom control with a textbox controls, when its rendered it would have (Me.ID + $ + textbox name), IE allows object names with "$" sign, so theres no problem finding/altering the object, but in FF it doesnt, so doing this wouldnt work with FF.

 

document.getElementById("myControl$Textbox1").disable = false;

 

 

anyone knows how to resolve this?

[PlausiblyDamp]

Just tried it here and FireFox worked ok. If you really can't get it to work could you not choose a different character?

[lamy]

actually i didnt choose the $ sign, it was like so when it got rendered to html, is there a way to change that?

 

hmnn... it worked for you in FF, now im totally lost coz it keeps returning undefined

[lamy]

oops, my mistake, i didnt notice that its rendered differently with attribute Name and ID

 

Name = MyControl$Textbox1

ID = MyControl_Textbox1

 

i guess the error was on document.forms[0].MyControl$Textbox and not on getElementById

 

i guess id have to change it to this document.getElementById('MyControl_Textbox1')

[Joe Mamma]

oops, my mistake, i didnt notice that its rendered differently with attribute Name and ID

 

Name = MyControl$Textbox1

ID = MyControl_Textbox1

 

i guess the error was on document.forms[0].MyControl$Textbox and not on getElementById

 

i guess id have to change it to this document.getElementById('MyControl_Textbox1')

when rendering the ID of a control, the rendered ID is simple Control.UniqueID.

 

so to render a document.getElementById -

 

Dim Script as String = String.Format("var ctrl = document.getElementById({0});", Me.ThisControl.UniqueID)

[lamy]

thanks Joe Mamma, ill keep that in mind :)

[Joe Mamma]

should have read:

[font=Courier New][color=#0000ff]Dim[/color] Script [color=#0000ff]as[/color] [color=#0000ff]String[/color] = String.Format("var ctrl = document.getElementById(""{0}"");", Me.ThisControl.UniqueID)[/font][font=Verdana]

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