issue that I dont understand help please

[blak422]

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So in there what Im doing is a spreadsheet like application. Now columns 4 and 5 have an input that triggers onkeyup. Those columns have the same name attribute but have different ids. The function determines where the keyup came from using css class name and gets the collection of objects from the other column, meaning that if I trigger from column 4 it collects column 5 and vice-versa. Now the problem lies on the 3 item, the "205 separator", if you look line 385/386 in the CalcCols() it grabs the price and the life therefore making the wrong calculation on EI9 but works on firefox. I simply do not get why getting elements by name "3" grabs this one that its name is "4".

Can any be so kind to look at this?

Thanks.

[007Julien]

I believe to understand that there is a confusion between the name of the variable and his rank. It could be a question of quotation marks in MySql.
Since the following method give currency strings

Number.prototype.toCurrencyString=function(){
	return '$'+(this|0).toFixed(2).replace(/(\d)(?=(\d{3})+\b)/g,'$1,');} 

alert ("-123456789.0123".toCurrencyString()) // $-123.456.789,01;

[blak422]

I guess Im not following your response. The code you posted is from the formatCurrency(), which happens after the fact. The problem is when I do

var newcName = parseInt(cName)-1;
var cols = document.getElementsByName(newcName);

when newcName = 3, it grtabs all elements with name 3 and the one with name 4.

for(var x=0;x<cols.length;x++){
            if(x==3){
                x++; //this here is a temp fix
            }
            //alert(cols[x].id);
            //alert(x);
            if(cols[x].id == id){
                aCost = cols[x].value;
                //alert(aCost);
            }
        }

Here when x=3 you can clearly see that it grabs the one element with name 4, throwing off my calculations. Why is doing this is what i do not get.

[jalarie]

... Those columns have the same name attribute but have different ids. ...

Don't the name and ID values have to match on each item for it to be valid html?

[007Julien]

This extract of jQuery uncompressed source (lines 164 to 178) show that IE and Opera return items by name instead of ID in certain circumstances...

elem = document.getElementById( match[2] );
	// Check parentNode to catch when Blackberry 4.6 returns
	// nodes that are no longer in the document #6963
	if ( elem && elem.parentNode ) {
		// Handle the case where IE and Opera return items
		// by name instead of ID
		if ( elem.id !== match[2] ) {
			return rootjQuery.find( selector );
		}		
	// Otherwise, we inject the element directly into the jQuery object
	this.length = 1;
	this[0] = elem;
}