How can we access the value of a radio button using the DOM?
For eg. we have the radio button as :
If you need the selected one, most frameworks support functionality like this:
//jQuery
$("input[name='sex']:checked").val()
function getEleByName(){
if(true==document.getElementsByName('gender')[0].checked){
alert('selected gender is: male');
}
else{
alert('selected gender is: female');
}
}
There are a couple of ways.
<input name="sex" id="sex_male" type="radio" value="male">
<input name="sex" id="sex_female" type="radio" value="female">
Then you can use document.getElementById("sex_male")
Then you can do something like this:
//This loops over all input elements that have a name of "sex"
$$('input[name="sex"]').each( function(elem) {
//Do something
});
Or even this to get at just the "male" radio button:
$$('input[name="sex"][value="male"]').each(function(elem) {
//Do something
});
An easy way to get started with Prototype is include it from Google by adding this between the <head></head> tags of your page:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.3/prototype.js"></script>
If you use document.form1.sex
, you are returned an array.
document.form1.sex[0]
= first radio button
document.form1.sex[1]
= second radio button
To check which is checked you need to loop:
whoChecked(document.form1.sex)
function whoChecked(fieldName) {
for(var x=0;x<fieldName.length;x++) {
if(fieldName[x].checked) {
return fieldname[x].value
}
}
Surprised no-one has suggested actually using the Selector API:
document.querySelector('input[name=sex]:checked').value
Browser support is good
If you want the selected one, but don't have a framework handy, you can iterate over the element array looking for whichever one is checked:
for (var i = 0; i < document.form1.sex.length; i++) {
if (document.form1.sex[i].checked) alert(document.form1.sex[i].value);
}