Casting Node to HTMLSelect?

[sad69]

Hey all,

I'm having some trouble with a select box.

I've got some dynamic stuff happening using DOM, in that I create various fields on the fly. One of those fields is a select box. As a matter of fact, that select box is an array.

Let's call that array property_value_method[].

I want to use DOM to cycle through this array of select boxes.

Here's what I got so far:

function displayProperties() {
 var pvm_list = document.getElementsByTagName("select");
 for(var i = 0; i < pvm_list.length; i++) {
  var pot_node = pvm_list.item(i);
  if(pot_node.attributes.getNamedItem("name").value.match("property_value_method")) {
   var pvm_select = (HTMLSelectElement)pot_node.cloneNode(true);
   alert(pvm_select.value);
  }
 }
}

I want to get the value out, or even just get access to the selectedIndex or something, but I can't seem to cast it correctly.

I know that I've got the right pot_node (stands for potential node if you were wondering...), and I know that it is in fact a select box, but I want to know what the correct syntax is for casting this thing.

At least I think casting is the problem. If anyone can see some other problem, I'd appreciate the help.

One other implication if you were wondering why I don't just use:

for(var value in document.forms["app"].elements) {
 if(value.match("property_value_method")) {
  ...
 }
}

is because I am using PHP and a field_forwarder, so I've potentially got more than one field named property_value_method[0], etc.. so that's why I'm resorting to using DOM to grab that information.

Here are some of my resources:

http://krook.org/jsdom/HTMLSelectElement.html

http://mail-archive.objectweb.org/xmlc/2001-03/msg00078.html

the cloneNode approach didn't work for me...

Thanks,
Sadiq.

[sad69]

Figured it out...

Hah, what a joke.

Sorry for bugging you guys with that long post.

So it turns out you don't need to cast it.

Executing pot_node.value and pot_node.selectedIndex works just fine without needing to cast it.

Not sure how that works, but yea.....

Thanks again to anyone that thought to help.
Sadiq.