My guess (because you didn’t specify the element type) is the element normally does not have a name attribute, so setting the DOM property like that won’t work. For example, setting the name property on an input element will work. Setting it on a div will not. It will work, however, with setAttribute(). jsFiddle.
C++ lacks built-in reflection capabilities of more dynamic languages, so you cannot do what you would like using he out of the box capabilities of the language. However, if all members are of the same type, you can do it with a map of pointers to members and a little preparation: // typedef for the … Read more
document.getElementsByName() returns a NodeList, so you have to access it by an index: document.getElementsByName(‘staff_counter’)[0] (depending on how many of these you have). You also have access to a length property to check how many Elements were matched.