I'm programming a message board for my site. Every message gets an id by auto increment in the database. The messages on the board are under "li id=#" tags where the "li" gets the id from the database. I've tried to create scrolling function via javascript so that down and up arrows would move across whole messages.

This is what I've got so far:

```
down.node.onclick = function() { // down arrow

var msgs = document.getElementById("kommentit"); // the <ul> element
var a = new Array();

if (msgs.hasChildNodes()) {
    var children = msgs.childNodes;
    for (var i = 0; i < children.length; i++) {
        if (msgs.childNodes[i].tagName == "LI") {
            a.push(msgs.childNodes[i].id); // array with the id's
        }
    }

}

for (var i = 0; i < a.length; i++) { // this is what goes wrong
    parent.location.href = '#' + 'a[i + 1]';
}

```

So while the array gets the right values the actual function doesn't work. With this code I get .../index.php#[a + 1] as my url when I click.

If I use ''+a[i + 1]+'' the page refreshes through the whole array until it settles with #undefined.

The id's are in format "id-xx" so is that the problem? I tried splitting the id by using msgs.childNodes[i].id.split("id-") but if I do this I get ",xx" as my values in the array.