A stupid JavaScript mistake...

Have you ever spent an hour on something that was so simple that upon solving it you wonder how you possess enough brain power to have ever learned to write a simple statement? Well I did and I'm writing this entry for anyone else who has ever felt like they should be immediately de-rezzed! Yeah - I just went TRON on you...

So here's the situation. I've got a cfloop that is dynamically building form controls. On some of the form controls I want to dynamically change the background color of the control if a user changes the value of said control. Sounds easy right, mix a little CF and jQuery and that should go down as easy as Captain and Coke - only I forgot the ice.

So if you need to pass an input control to a JavaScript function and then dynamically take action based on the name of the control, don't forget to handle the small things - like say concatenating the proper characters into your input control's name so that you can properly reference them in your JavaScript code.

Here's the caller...

Now we want the JavaScript function manageEditedControlState to handle changing the background color for us...

So what's laughable here is that I forgot to add the little pound + var name $('#' + controlID) and then I shouted at the screen for a good number of minutes. Then I did what I always seem to do, I sent an e-mail to Ray Camden but solved it before he had time to reply or publicly humiliate me on his blog. Don't be fooled people, he is a roving TMZ reporter (covering stupid RIA developers and noobs) and if you see him and you're having an off day then you need to run. Just kidding Ray, good job on releasing Picard.