Accessing form elements outside of the Form API - Plz delete first thread

chrishardie

Hi,

I want to access a textarea via javascript outside of TeamSite's form API. I have a DCT with a snippet like so:
<code>
<container name="bodycontainer" combination="or" min="0" max="unbounded">
<container name="body" location="body">
<item name="body" pathid="body" rowcontinue="t">
<label>My Text Area</label>
<textarea rows="25" cols="52" />
</item>
</container>
</code>
Is there a way to access the rendered textarea with a simple document.getElementById? I have tried deferring my script until after the page is loaded via the DOMContentLoaded event, but I have had no joy. Any ideas?

Cheers,

C.

ISCBorisB

Is there a way to access the rendered textarea with a simple document.getElementById? I have tried deferring my script until after the page is loaded via the DOMContentLoaded event, but I have had no joy. Any idea?

What does that mean, "outside of the FormAPI"? What component did you use to issue "document.getElementById" from?
Was it some CGI/Servlet rendered Page that somehow obtained DCR Page handle? What does deferring script execution have to do to any of that?

In other words, what is the problem you are trying to solve?