My apologies for posting something so trivial, but please can someone end my
confusion?

I'm attempting to survey all the various inputs in the single form
(addressstuff) on my page to see if any have been changed.

FormClean = True
For Each item in document.addressstuff.elements
 If item.value <> item.defaultvalue Then   <<<<< PROBLEM
  FormClean= False
  Exit For
 End If
Next

I get a runtime error "item - illegal assignment" at the marked line.

Thanks  - Mike -

    First thing you need to do is to make sure that you're working with
objects when using syntax like "For each xx in yy".

    So,

    Set oElements=Document.FormName.Elements
    For Each oElement in oElements

        'Code

    Next

Another thing to watch out for here is that not every form element has a
default value property (a button for example only has name, type and value
properties).  So you would need to add code (maybe Select Case statements)
to check the elements type (radio, checkbox, text, button, submit, reset,
etc etc), and only perform default value checking for appropriate elements.

Luke

Luke:

Thanks (again). I took your advice and implemented a hybrid approach.
Problem solved.  - Mike -