Generating menu with javascript?

I'm trying to make a form where people can add or delete menus and options for those menus in order to generate a menu for a game. I need to be able to grab the value of the form data for each specific menu and the options for that menu, so my current idea is to have a variable put into the id of each menu and then a new variable into the id of each option. Each time they add a menu, that variable increases and each time they add an option for that menu, the variable specific to that menu increases. The problem is that if they add a ton of menus or options and then delete them, the number still increases and I could end up have men开发者_开发技巧us and options with huge gaps between their id values.

Is there a way to do this with arrays? I'm not sure how much sense this is going to make if any, so let me rephrase:

Is there a way to make an array of elements?

I'm having a very hard time just trying to describe what I'm trying to do. Do any of you have AIM or another means of live chat?

Am not sure I understood correctly what that you are trying to do, but if I did this is my solution:

have jQuery .size() run every time someone deletes a menu or option, and then reassign the ID of each element with a .each() loop. jQuery size() page