Re: Custom Controls & Javascript

Forgive me for being a 'newbie' with Javascript... but how do I obtain the
ClientID property? Could you possibly provide a short code snipet from what
your explaining? Thank you very much for your help.

"Brock Allen" wrote:

> The ID in the client will be dynamically generated and might be different
> than the exact ID you've assigned in your code. To determine what the ID
> will be in the client browser use the ClientID property on the control in
> the server. You'll have to incorporate that dynamically into your javascript
> when calling getElementById().
>
> -Brock
> DevelopMentor
> http://staff.develop.com/ballen
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> > I have created a Custom Control and I need to populate 2 fields with
> > data that I am grabbing from a control on the parent form. I need to
> > use Javascript to grab the data on the parent form & populate the data
> > in the custom control. The code that I have below get's the data but
> > can't find the control on the custom control. Any ideas or proper
> > direction would be appreciated.
> >
> > sFName=document.Form1.fldFName.value;
> > var NameField = document.getElementById(fldQFName);
> > NameField.value = sFName;
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Steve.
> >
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