Accessing the Combobox control after initialization

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#1

I downloaded your combobox control to test if it is suitable for our needs. The control is simple and easy to use, without much overhead. Great ! However I have an issue in accessing the control after initialization.



I initilaized the control from a select control using the following lines of code.



z= dhtmlXComboFromSelect(“combo1”);

z.addOption([[1,‘John’],[5,‘Mary’]]);



This creates combobox and works fine. I have another button on the form, which on click, I would like to add a value into combo box. The following is the code





    

The first line returns a javascript error: Line 13: “null” is null or not an object.    

I tried accessing the element by using

document.getElementById(‘combo1’);        

This statement returns null.



How can I access the existing control by id? Accessing the existing control from various pieces of code is crucial for our project. Unfortunately, we can’t have a global javascript variable for a combobox. There could be several combocontrols on the form, which we need to access only by id. Please help me at the earliest possible.



Thanks,

Niranjan.

#2

Just use z as the combo object. After z= dhtmlXComboFromSelect(“combo1”); command has been done, “combo1” container doesn’t exist.

var z= dhtmlXComboFromSelect(“combo1”);

z.addOption([[1,‘John’],[5,‘Mary’]]);


function OnButtonClick()
{


    z.addOption([6,‘Bruce’]);


}