Re: Help with regex (search/replace) please

hello, Hi ryan, i am not sure i am getting you on what ya want , is this something like what ya want, the code below which i wrote? function get_value() { var el = document.form_name.elements.length; for(var i =0 ; i<= el ; i++) { if(document.form_name.elements[i].type="checkbox") { var id = document.form_name.elements[i].getAttribute("id"); var name = document.form_name.elements[i].getAttribute("name"); var functions = document.form_name.elements[i].getAttribute("onsomething"); var full_field = ("you can join all 3 ^^ values to make the full code and pass that to php script via ajax , Other methods are welcome too '); } } } Regards, Gautam Bhatia On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 07:41 -0800, Ryan S wrote: > Hey guys, > > As many of you might know, i totally suck at regex..so would really appreciate some help here. > > Basically i have a html page with a lot of textboxes,radios,checkboxes etc > i need your help in the form of a regex so that when i give it the name and value it gives me > the entire code of that checkbox. > for example here are 2 checkboxes: > > <input type="checkbox" name="something" value="1" /> > > <input > type="checkbox" name="something2" value="2" > id="something" > onClick="javascript_code_etc()" onSomething="lots of js cod here()" > /> > > > > so if i want the second checkbox code i was thinking of something like this: > > $the_name="something2"; > $the_value="2"; > $fetched=getCheckboxFromHTML($the_name,$the_value); > > and then if successful the variable $fetched would contain > <input > type="checkbox" name="something2" value="2" > id="something" > onClick="javascript_code_etc()" onSomething="lots of js cod here()" > /> > > the idea is that i would use the contents of $fetch to add > some code before the end just before the greater than symbol, and do a > str_replace(). > > What do you think? Critique of my logic above too is welcome! > > Thanks! > Ryan > > > > >