I am a self taught, part time ASP/Database programmer (mostly front ends to let users work in a database that has been simplified). JavaScript is something I am pretty poor at.

I have a challege that I believe needs to be handled in JavaScript, but after a week of puzzling over it I still have no clue. My users are supposed to either select an address (already in the database) or create a new one. This happens on one form and could be any number of lines.

My ASP code creates fields a table of fields along the lines of:
ShippingAddress1 CompanyName1
ShippingAddress2 CompanyName2

I know how to check (using an if x && y) statement to see that both items are not selected. Once. But I need somehow tell the code to check Line 1, then if there is a Line 2 check line 2, if not, the code can stop. This could be ANY number of lines....literally up to the hundreds.

Am I way off my rocker thinking JavaScript could do this? Anyone have any ideas? (even just the right keywords to search for help on would be sooooo very helpful)!

Hii SaraJaneQ!!

Since ShippingAddress1, ShippingAddress2.... is generated by your asp code,
you can put the counter field<hidden textbox> ,so that you can know ,number of elements
 needs to be check.

e.g.
if asp code generate 10 Addresses ,then ShippingAddress1,2...10
now
<input type=text name="counter" value=10>
this value must come from the no. of records in the recordset.

now you can easily put ur validation using javascript.
hope this will help you

Cheers :)

vinod

Thanks so much for your answer. Actually, I got that far. I do have a counter. But in doing it that way I get stumped as to how to call the line items. How would I get the numbers to apply to field names. I have been guessing at things like:
document.form.field[topnumber].value
document.form.field+topnumber+.value
document.form.field"+topnumber+".value

nothing seems to work. I feel like I am missing something really simple here, but I have really only used javascript for focus() and very simple validation before.

Hii SaraJaneQ!!

Hope this will help you.
Please change select option to as per ur requirment(.ie.textbox,whtever field value)

<script>
function Validate()
{
formName=document.testForm
counterValue=formName.counter.value
if(counterValue>0)
{
    for(i=1;i<=counterValue;i++)
    {
    if(parseInt(document.getElementById("shipOpt"+i).v alue,10)==0)
    {
     alert("Please Select Shipping Address"+i)
     document.getElementById("shipOpt"+i).focus();
     return false;
    }

    if(parseInt(document.getElementById("compOpt"+i).v alue,10)==0)
    {
     alert("Please Select Company Address"+i)
     document.getElementById("compOpt"+i).focus();
          return false;
    }

    }
}

     return true;
}

function formSubmit()
{
if(Validate())
{
alert("formsubmitted")
formName=document.testForm
formName.submit();
}
}
</script>

<form name="testForm" action="submitForm.asp">
<table>

<tr>
<td>ShippingAddress</td>
<td>CompanyName</td>
</tr>

<%
ShippingAddress="<option value=0>SelectShippingAddress</option><option value=1>ShippingAddress1</option><option value=2>ShippingAddress2</option><option value=3>ShippingAddress3</option><option value=4>ShippingAddress4</option><option value=5>ShippingAddress5</option>"

CompanyName="<option value=0>SelectCompanyName</option><option value=1>CompanyName1</option><option value=2>CompanyName2</option><option value=3>CompanyName3</option><option value=4>CompanyName4</option><option value=5>CompanyName5</option>"
counter=10

for i=1 to counter
%>
<tr>
<td><select id="shipOpt<%=i%>" name="shipOpt<%=i%>"><%=ShippingAddress%></select></td>
<td><select id="compOpt<%=i%>" name="compOpt<%=i%>"><%=CompanyName%></select></td>
</tr>
<%next%>
<tr><td colspan=2>
<input type=button onclick="formSubmit()" value="Check">
<input type=hidden name="counter" value=<%=counter%>>
</td></tr>
</table>
</form>

Cheers :)

vinod

Wow! Totally above and beyond, but that helps so very much. Thank you Vinod!