Re: php / JS / DOM question

which is not part of the standards. It's accepted by most browsers because a lot of sites use it (due to the fact that IE is so popular), but it's *NOT* standard. So, don't do it! Dan showed the correct way. - tul Kirk.Johnson@zootweb.com wrote:

Add the "value" property: document.forms['query_form'].elements['q'] .value. Kirk jonathan <news_php@arclocal.com> wrote on 12/29/2005 02:45:23 PM:

<form name="query_form"> <input type="text" name="q"></input> <input type="button" onclick="drawImg('A',document.forms ['query_form'].elements['q']);" value="Search"></input> </form> When the user clicks on the button, I want the text that is in input elment 'q' to be sent to the Javascript function drawImg but when I debug it via alerts, it appears to be NULL.