I have a multi-page form.

I have in my cookie all the name-value pairs for every field of every form page & I know how to access those values.

When my user goes back to a page already filled in, I would like to populate the actual form *fields* on that page with the values the user filled in on his/her last visit to the page in that session.

In my "onload()" function, I tried:
(where strNames[i] is the name of that field on the page & strValues[i] is the value of that field on the page)

   for (i = 0; i < strNames.length; i++){
      strNames[i].value = strValues[i]; // set value on page
      alert("strNames[i].value = " + strNames[i].value)
   } //

but strNames[i].value was undefined.

How do I populate the actual form fields (as opposed to popping up alert boxes or writing to the bottom of the page with document.write)?

You need to figure out the field object based on the name...

     document.forms[0][strNames[i]].value = strValues[i]; // set value on page

I can't say this will definately work (not sure about the element array, it might be form[0].elements[...]), but this is the general idea. You need to use the value from your names array to find the element in the form.

Alternatively you could use the eval() method to find it:

     objFormElement = eval("document.forms[0]."+strNames[i]);
     objFormElement.value = strValues[i]; // set value on page

Lastly, there's the getElementById method, but this work only if you have a value in the ID attribute of each input (I think):

     objFormElement = document.getElementById(strNames[i]);
     objFormElement.value = strValues[i]; // set value on page

(Sorry for the uncertainty of these suggestions. I gave you three in the hopes one would work.)

Peter
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