Problem with select tag

[Swathi Ram]

Hai,

I had a jsp in that I had a input feild for number of jobs.Depending on
that input ,that many times the below tag must be display.

<td><s:select theme="simple" name="jobList[%{#rowstatus.index}].jobType" list="positionsList" emptyOption='true'/></td>

Until here it is working fine.But I'm having a button when I click on that
it should select the value for other dropdowns same as the first dropdown .
I'm trying to do this using onclick javascript

for(var i=1;i<=noofjobs;i++){
document.getElementById("jobList[i].speciality").option[document.postBulkJobs.jobList[0].speciality.selectedIndex].selected= true;
}

But it is not working . I'm not able to get selected value to the javascript . Is this the correct way to do it.

Please help

[John Simpson]

Sounds like you need to ping the server first. Try using an Ajax framework instead of plain old javascript...

Just a thought

[Merrill Higginson]

The problem is with the following code fragment:

document.postBulkJobs.jobList[0].speciality

When you have an element name containing characters that mean something in JavaScript such as square brackets or periods, you can't use the above method to retrieve the object. You must instead use either getElementById or getElementsByName to retrieve the object.