for(i=0;i<document.getElementsByName('checkresult_".$i."').length;++i){ if(document.getElementsByName('checkresult_".$i."')[i].checked){ thisurlext+=document.getElementsByName('checkresult_".$i."')[i].value; checkedlength++; if(i+1<document.getElementsByName('checkresult_".$i."').length){ if(document.getElementsByName('checkresult_".$i."')[i+1].checked){ thisurlext+='+'; } } } }; Code (markup): Let's say I check verses 1, 2, 3, 6 I want the Javascript not to ignore the + between the 3 and the 6: <div id="txt_kjv0_1_1_0" style="float: left; background-color: rgb(234, 232, 200); margin: 0px; width: 178px; height: 497px; border: 1px solid rgb(122, 16, 16); padding: 5px 5px 0px; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: hidden;"> <input id="sc0" value="kjv" type="hidden"> <p id="regular[]" name="bibletext" style="float: left; text-align: left; width: 155px; display: block; padding: 0px 2px; font-size: 12px;"><input id="check0_0" name="checkresult_0" onclick="" value="1" type="checkbox"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 2px;">1</span>In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.</p> <p id="regular[]" name="bibletext" style="float: left; text-align: left; width: 155px; display: block; padding: 0px 2px; font-size: 12px;"><input id="check0_1" name="checkresult_0" onclick="" value="2" type="checkbox"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 2px;">2</span>And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.</p> <p id="regular[]" name="bibletext" style="float: left; text-align: left; width: 155px; display: block; padding: 0px 2px; font-size: 12px;"><input id="check0_2" name="checkresult_0" onclick="" value="3" type="checkbox"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 2px;">3</span>And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.</p> <p id="regular[]" name="bibletext" style="float: left; text-align: left; width: 155px; display: block; padding: 0px 2px; font-size: 12px;"><input id="check0_3" name="checkresult_0" onclick="" value="4" type="checkbox"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 2px;">4</span>And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.</p> <p id="regular[]" name="bibletext" style="float: left; text-align: left; width: 155px; display: block; padding: 0px 2px; font-size: 12px;"><input id="check0_4" name="checkresult_0" onclick="" value="5" type="checkbox"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 2px;">5</span>And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.</p> <p id="regular[]" name="bibletext" style="float: left; text-align: left; width: 155px; display: block; padding: 0px 2px; font-size: 12px;"><input id="check0_5" name="checkresult_0" onclick="" value="6" type="checkbox"><span style="font-weight: bold; margin: 2px;">6</span>And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.</p> Code (markup):
Ok, couple a noob mistakes that make your life difficult there bro/sis.. id="regular[]" is invalid. The [ and ] characters are not allowed i think. id= and name= need to be UNIQUE per page/iframe (and ideally the same per tag). it's bad practice to put visual markup like font-weight:bold and margin:2px in every tag that uses it. in stead, make that <span> that uses the markup have a <span class="indexNumber">, then put this line in your <head>: <link type='text/css' rel='StyleSheet' media='screen' href='/path/to/page.css'> then create that file page.css, and put in it: .indexNumber { font-weight : bold; margin : 2px; } And voila; welcome to the wonderful world of CSS ;-) Your <input> tags need to end with /> it's (imo) better to use document.getElementById() than .getElementsByName() if you want to select whole ranges of elements, the best option and industry standard of this moment, is including http://jquery.com library in your <head>, adding class="someClass" to all tags that need it, and then selecting those in javascript by calling $('.someClass') But this might be above your learning curve right now, so let's go back to your original javascript; thisurlext = ''; for(i=0;i<document.getElementsByName('checkresult_".$i."').length;++i){ if(document.getElementsByName('checkresult_".$i."').checked){ if (thisurlext!='') thisurlext+='+'; thisurlext+=document.getElementsByName('checkresult_".$i."').value; checkedlength++; } }; this might help in fixing the issue.