[Zope] Names containing colons?

[Christopher J. Kucera]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> In my web page input forms I've been using field names like
> "radius:int" so Zope will coerce variables to the proper type.
> This works fine on the server.  Unfortunately, if I have a
> JavaScript function on my web page to do form input validation,
> how do I reference that object?  Is there some alternate naming
> scheme that will allow Zope to do the type cast and allow
> references from JavaScript?  Should I just forego the :int stuff
> altogether and do the coercion explicitly?

In your JavaScript functions, reference the variable as such:

forms[0].elements["radius:int"]

(Replace the "0" with an actual name if you've named your form . . .)

-CJ