Hi I am making an inventory application for pocket PC and I just wanted a quick check to see if I've already inventoried an article today
So I wanted to check the label "latestInv" to todays date and issue an alert if they match.
How do I get the value of the label?
I tried document.form1.latestInv.value, .text, .innerHTML, .youNameIt
but all I get if undefined
please help!
best / Anders

where is the label getting the text from, are you binding it to a column in the DB? If so, why not just check that value instead of the label text

Yes the label text is set from the DB but the DB is on the server, I have to read the text on the client, hence jscript.
The label transform to a <span id=latestInv> , there has to be a way to read the content of a span.

You can read the "contents" of any HTML element by means of the "innerHTML" property. The following should do it. Caution on the capitalization of HTML, I might have it wrong.

document.getElementById("latestInv").innerHTML

The capitalization is fine, the rest however, is not.
I'm developing for Pocket PC wich means Pocket Explorer, wich means JScript instead of the full JavaScript.
.getElementById() is not available nor seems .innerHTML.

I can reach document.form1.latestInv without problems.
Could I assign a value attribute to the span tag?
It seems that I can read .value from most any element.
Anders

PS I re-read my answer and it sounds like I'm chewing your head off
I'm really not I'm really grateful that you take time to help me, I'm just frustrated since this should be a piece of cake, the info is right there on the webpage and the customer is breathing down my neck.:(