HTML - User Text Input

Hello all! This is my first post here and after getting little to no help from Yahoo answers I decided to go where the pros are. I want to thank everybody in advance for taking the time to read my question and offer any help. I also want to say that I am not looking for somebody to do the work for me...just point me in the right direction to get started on figuring it out myself.
You know...give a man a fish....blah blah blah.

Now for my question:
I am building a simple HTML template for a friend to use on an auction site. My friend has absolutely no idea of how to edit HTML so to make it easier for her, I want to add forms that will allow her to input her information (item description, shipping and payment terms) and have it applied to the template in the correct place.

I had already received a snippet of code from a helpful fellow that will turn anything typed into the fields into HTML for her to copy and paste. The problem with it though is that it has no format and I cannot figure how to get it to display the code inside of the template I made.

I did a little tweaking of what I had to get the basic setup of the forms and such, but cannot figure out how to place the information from each textarea into the template.

I have done a few hours of research trying to find the answer, but keep coming up empty handed because I have no idea where to even start looking for the answer. Can it be done with HTML or will I have to use another language? (This will be done from her computer so from my understanding php and any other server side stuff will not work.)

The code I'm wanting to use (if possible) is attached as "Formcode.txt". The template I want to use it in is attached as "Template v1.3.txt". The forms do not necessarily need to be placed at those locations but the output needs to be there.

Thank you all so much for taking the time to help!

BTW, I know that there are tons of free WYSIWYG editors out there that she could download and use but this has bugged me to the point that I have to find the solution.

This seems like an easy question, but what's the correct way to get user input and submit to a function?

I'm able to get it to work like the following, but it doesn't seem like the 'right' way to do things:

Code:

<form name="some_name" action="doesnt-exist.php" onSubmit="return some_function()"><input type="text" name="query" /></form>

And then I catch the variable in some_function() and return false so the page doesn't try to contact doesnt-exist.php. Then I'm able to use the input for my function.

Like I said, this works, but is there a cleaner, more standard way?

Thank you!

Is there a way through HTML forms, CGI, Perl, or javascript to have a visitor to a page edit the text of an html document? Example: I have a fantasy basketball league website with roster pages for each participant. I want to allow them to login to their individual page and move their players around from a bench position to a starter and vice versa. I use Tripod as my hosting site. Thanks for any suggestions!!!

Hey, I need to create a function or something else on this
input text that only english strings can be wrote
i mean not hebrew or arabic, if i'm typing hebrew/arabic letters
it should wont be wroted


I need to add to this code for example:

Code:

Name: 
<input type="text"  name="your_name"/><br />

Hi.

I am currently struggling to find a simple sollution to the following issue.

I want to render out a text input box in HTML that will have a block (with borders) for every character.

I can think of really tedious solutions that will involve a table with an input tag per cell but this will be nasty if something else is available.

The solution is only for IE and cannot involve any ActiveX components due to security issues.

So is there any easy way to basically create internal borders in an input or textbox tag that will separate the characters for me?

Thanks.

Hi,
I'm trying to make a text input in a form automatically focus when the page is loaded. I know i can't use onLoad directly in the input tag and, searching on the web, i found that i have to use onLoad on the body element - something like this:
<body OnLoad="document.myform.mytextfield.focus();">
The problem is i have multiple text inputs sharing the same name (they are cells in a table) so i can't use the input's name. But i do know it's the last element with that name (the last row in the table). So, how can i focus it? I hope you can help me, everything i tried didn't work.
Thank you.

Hi, I have yet another problem which i think an intermediate php programmer can solve. Since I am very new, please bear with me:

I want to try to make a page where the user can input a number of rows to create (this is going to be integrated into mysql), and be able to input the information on the same page. I have not developed the code yet because I could not think of a solution for this, which is why I made tihs thread. I hope you can also answer questions in the [ ] box because im also at a loss the

So I want the user to choose the following:
"New Entry" or "Old Entry"?[I was thinking these are submit buttons.. makes most sense]
"How many Entries?: " user enters 3 and presses submit box [1. should this be a submit box, or another kind?]

this is the hard part. I want the user to enter 3, and i want three new text boxes to show up where the user can input data, and just one submit button on the same screen. this i believe will use a forloop after it reads what the user entered
so here is the question [question 2]: Can anyone tell me how to create a textbox inside <?php ?> where I can ask the user to input the information and click submit?
so far I have only been able to do it in html.

Hi everyone,

What I am asking is more complicated than the thread title says. Can someone please tell me how, or post some code to show how I can make input fields with these properties:

1. Make text appear in an input field whilst off focus but dissapear whilst on focus, re-appear again if put back on focus.

2. The user can type text in the field and edit it and when the input field is off focus the text he wrote remains there.

3. If the user completely erases the text he wrote and puts the input field off focus the default text (stated in 1.) re-appears.

4. Make a password input field without the default text (1.) being displayed as stars (hidden charaters) with same features as 1. , 2. , and 3. ofcourse.

Can anyone please help me?...

Evan

How can I make it so that the end user can choose between three text sizes like is done here

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=294191

Thanks in advance

BW

Hi,

I want to modify a form where I have some "select option" and input text tags.

The thing is that when a user select an option from the "select opcion" tag, according to the option selected I want to print some input text in the form .. how can i do that?.


Thks a lot!

Code:

<form action="submitreg.php" method="post">
Desired Username: <input type="text"><br>
Desired Password: <input type="text">
</form>

This is just an ordinary unmodified form I have created. The problem is that the form positioning outputs like this:




How do I make this look normal and aligned?

Thank you

Hi all. I'm and HTML Newbie and am building a quick and easy site for someone. The way I typically do it for these type of "brochure" style sites is to simply lay everything out in photoshop. Slice it up save as HTML and then edit in Dreamweaver. Here is the HTML as it is now:
Quote:
<html>
<head>
<title>JessicaSite</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0">
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<!-- Save for Web Slices (JessicaSite.psd) -->
<table width="948" height="605" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="Table_01">
<tr>
<td colspan="5"><img src="images/Services_01.jpg" width="948" height="518" alt=""></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a href="Home.html"><img src="images/Services_02.jpg" alt="" width="176" height="87" border="0"></a></td>
<td><a href="Services.Html"><img src="images/Services_03.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="87" border="0"></a></td>
<td><a href="Gallery.Html"><img src="images/Services_04.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="87" border="0"></a></td>
<td><a href="Designer.Html"><img src="images/Services_05.jpg" alt="" width="193" height="87" border="0"></a></td>
<td><a href="Contact.Html"><img src="images/Services_06.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="87" border="0"></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- End Save for Web Slices -->
</body>
</html>
Pretty simple. In the first Table I'd like to be able to put text in there and have it scroll. How do I do this? I've already tried putting a div style="overflow:auto; tag around the first table but that definitely didn't work. Any suggestions? Bare in mind I know NO CSS and only the basics of HTML.

Hello,
Does anyone know how to create an input form that saves text to a text file? i.e. a text box with a submit button.

Thanks.

I'm making a form that contains three places for the user to enter text. The first two are for taking only one line of text, but the third is a bigger input for taking in multiple paragraphs of text. The trouble is, I can't get this third one to wrap the text!

Is there a way to turn word wrapping on for an input bar? Or should I be using a different form element?

Hi, I'm novice in webpage creating, and i have this kind of problem :
I'm creating a webpage, where users could post some kind of a comment... I don't know did i choose rigth, but i'm using
"input type="text" ...> users write there a comment, and press submit button. This comment is sent to mysql database and saved there, after submiting it. Next step is placing it in a webpage.
It works, but ot that way as i want.
A problem is : I've added a code like <input type="text" style="650px; height:150px" name="msg">
Input area is about height of 7-8 rows. I want that it worked like this : user types a text, and when it reaches the end of a line, cursor jumpt to the beneath row. Now, user is writing everything in one row, and when it reaches the end - scrollbar apear on the bottom. I would like that scrollbar would apear then, when user reaches the bottom of the input area.
Moreover - i would like that user could press the ENTER button, to jump to next row. Now, when he does this - submit button is activated, and a written text is sent to the database.
Should i use CSS? or ... i'm really green here, and don't know what to do ..
hope anypne will answer to my SOS call