Taxonomy IDs in forms

• shankie

• January 29, 2014 at 5:44 am

Hi

I’m having some trouble with the CSS ID on taxonomies for select boxes.

I have a form with a number of select boxes, most of which are relationships but with one as a taxonomy.

The relationship select boxes all receive a CSS ID in the form of

<select id="acf-field-climbing_centre" class="post_object" name="fields[field_5298b914ea407]">

however, taxonomy fields look like this:

<select name="fields[field_52e7f08dec08a]">

…they’re missing the ID that’s assigned to other fields.

Anyone have any idea why this might be the case? I need these IDs as I’m using them to pre-populate fields using JS.

• James

• January 29, 2014 at 6:53 am

Hi @shankie,

Looks like the taxonomy select field does not echo an ID, I have raised an issue with Elliot.

In the mean time, can you update your jQuery selector to target the name? Eg:

$('select[name~="field_52e7f08dec08a"]);

I am using the contains word selector here => http://api.jquery.com/attribute-contains-word-selector/

• shankie

• January 29, 2014 at 7:19 am

Hi @acf-support,

Thanks for the tips. That’s grand, I’ll try using the name tomorrow. It should solve the problem.

In a way, glad to know that it wasn’t just me being careless.

Thanks for your help.

andrew

• Elliot

• January 29, 2014 at 12:58 pm

Hi @shankie

Thanks for the report. I’ll add this to the to-do and fix the missing attributes.

Thanks
E

• Elliot

• February 15, 2014 at 11:50 am

Hi @shankie

Thanks for the request. This has been pushed to github and will be released soon.

Cheers
E

• shankie

• February 16, 2014 at 9:17 pm

Hi @elliot,

That’s great—–thanks for sorting out.

Cheers

a.