Javascript Form Validation With Array Values

Question

I will be brief, but try to give you a good idea of what I need through a smaller example.

I have 3 boxes of information: one text, one starting time and one ending time.

Every day someone will input some "activities" they did throughout the day. For instance "Mowed the Lawn" (text input), Starttime=10:00am (select input) - Endtime=11:00am (select input).

However I have built into this webpage the ability to click on a button and it will add another 3 inputs (activity, starttime, endtime) for all the activities they did through the day. If it helps, I have this structured so that the name of these inputs are for example activity[], starttime[], endtime[] so that PHP will render it correctly and store the values appropriately in the database.

My goal is that I don't want to put bad time data into my database (starttime = 10:00am, endtime = 9:00am. I understand how to do form validation for 1 instance of the 3 inputs (getElementById has done this for me), but not multiple instances of the three inputs in a dynamic array.

Thoughts?

Here's a link to a screenshot (since I'm a new user and can't post images). http://admissions.utils.us/images/Screenshot.png

Tim Joyce · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-16 23:41:46Z

1

you could check to see how many elements on the page have the tag and then do a for loop to cycle through the array of input elements and then do your verification

var inputs = document.getElementsByTagName('input').length;

for (var i = 0; i < inputs; i++){
    if (document.getElementsByTagName('input')[i].value != ''){
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

answered Apr 16, 2011 at 23:41

Tim Joyce

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