QuickForm: Name of select Elements

Hi I got a problem using QF together with some JavaScript. In my QF derived class, I add a selectbox like this: $element = $this->createElement('select', 'news_id', 'News: ', $news); $this->addElement($element); When I want to get the name of this element: $elName = $element->getName(); $elName is set to news_id. The problem I have is that I have to pass this name to a JavaScript. This does not work. When I look at the HTML-code that QF generates, the name of the selectbox-element is set to: <select name="news_id[]"> So QF gives the element the name news_id[]. Why does QF add these square brackets? I have to pass the name of the element to JavaScript within an array and that does not work with the name that QF returns as well as when I add the square brackets to the returned name. Can somebody point me how I can handle this? Thanks! -- Regards Marco