I can’t believe I had not run into this yet, but today I had a page that had an element (an anchor) with a name attribute (“floorplans”), and further down the page a div with that id (“floorplans”). When I tried to dynamically load content into my div using $(‘floorplans’), things were getting all out of control on IE 6. Turns out IE6’s document.getElementById returns the first element whose id OR name matches the string, and of course Prototype’s $() function relies on the browser’s own getElementById(). Lesson learned!

If you want to get the value of the selected element of a radio group, prototype makes this easy. There is more than one way to do it. I’ll update this post as better methods surface. Check out code after the jump.

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