Accessing Controls

austinf · July 21st, 2006, 02:42 AM

hi i have a javascript function as follows

Code:

function fnIsTextBoxEmpty(frmName,ctrlName) {
  if(frmName.ctrlName.value == "")
    return true;
  else 
    return false;
}

Now this is called as follows

Code:

var frm = document.forms[0];

if(fnIsTextBoxEmpty(frm,'name'))
   alert("Empty");

'name' is a textbox.

The problem here is that the function fnIsTextBoxEmpty does not take the 'name' as the control name but the 'ctrlName'.

I am aware that i can use document.getElementById but it I know that this is not available for Netscape.
Also i hear that eval() is not very reliable so i dont want to use it.

So Plz can someone tell me the solution

Thanks