JavaScript Bible, Gold Edition part 70. This book will bring programmers and non-technical professionals, including casual programmers and scripters, painlessly up to speed on all aspects of mastering JavaScript. Key topics include programming fundamentals, JavaScript language elements and how to use them effectively, and how to easily and efficiently add powerful new functionality to HTML documents and Java applets. | 538 Part III Document Objects Reference Or one setting may direct the action to one mailto address whereas another setting sets the action property to a different mailto address. Although the specifications for all three related properties indicate that they you can set them on the fly such changes are ephemeral. A soft reload eradicates any settings you make to these properties so you should make changes to these properties only in the same script function that submits the form see form. submit later in this chapter . The value of the action property is read-only in IE3. Example on the CD-ROM Related Items properties. autocomplete Value String Read Write NN2 NN3 NN4 NN6 IE3 J1 IE3 J2 IE4 IE5 Compatibility Microsoft added a feature to forms with IE5 but not IE5 Mac that allows the browser to supply hints for filling out form controls if the controls names map to a set of single-line text controls defined via some additional attributes linked to the vCard XML schema. For details on implementing this browser feature see http workshop author forms . Values for the autoComplete property are your choice of two strings on or off. In either case the FORM element object does not report knowing about this property unless you set the AUTOCOMPLETE attribute in the form s tag. Related Items None. elements Value Array of form control elements Read-Only NN2 NN3 NN4 NN6 IE3 J1 IE3 J2 IE4 IE5 Compatibility Elements include all the user interface elements defined for a form text fields buttons radio buttons checkboxes selection lists and more. The elements property is an array of all form control items defined within the current form. For example if a form defines three INPUT items the elements property for that form is an array Chapter 23 The Form and Related Objects 539 consisting of three entries one for each item in source code order . Each entry is a valid reference to that .
