FrontPage 2003 added regular expressions to its Find and Replace tool. This is a big improvement and allows for more powerful code editing. Unfortunately, it requires a lot of trial and error to figure out its regular expression syntax which differs from UNIX style syntax.<\/p>\n
One of the more useful regular expressions I’ve come up with is to replace my old method of referring to a form field in JavaScript with my new method which is more compatible with various web browsers. The old method would use something like document.forms[“name”].elements[“name”].value <\/b> which would break if you change the form name. The better method is to use document.getElementById(“name”).value<\/b> which doesn’t even use the form name.<\/p>\n
My FrontPage Regular Expression <\/strong> changes the syntax of the JavaScript:<\/p>\n Find: <\/strong> document.forms(.)*elements[ You must remember to change the closing bracket to a ) and to insert id attributes to your form fields if you did not use them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FrontPage 2003 added regular expressions to its Find and Replace tool. This is a big improvement and allows for more powerful code editing. Unfortunately, it requires a lot of trial and error to figure out its regular expression syntax which … Continue reading
\nReplace:<\/strong> document.getElementById(<\/p>\n