Question

I have piece of JavaScript code which cycles through form elements and builds an object.
I have a mixture of HTML input fields and ASP.NET input fields. ASP.NET changes the ID of the fields to the form xxxxx_yyyy_id, so I am attempting to use the split function to extract the original id.

 // Iterate over all the text fields and build an object
 $(':text').each(function () {

     var tokens = this.id.split("_");
     if (tokens.length = 3) {
         // Assume this is a .net inputbox - extract the original id
         inFormData[tokens[2]] = this.value;
     } else {             
         inFormData[this.id] = this.value;
     }
 });

Stepping through the above code, the first id is ctl00_ContentPlaceHolderCol1_forenameField, so the tokens.length = 3 code is run.
On the second iteration, the id is forenameField2 so I would expect the tokens.length to be 1, but it is actually 3. The else statement is never run.

This could be something simple, but I cant work it out. If I inspect the tokens array it has only 1 element in on the second iteration. I have also tried setting the array.length to 0 after each iteration.

Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

Correct this:

== instead of =. === is more better


     if (tokens.length == 3) {
         // Assume this is a .net inputbox - extract the original id
         inFormData[tokens[2]] = this.value;
     } else {             
         inFormData[this.id] = this.value;
     }