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JavaScript - Help With Textarea Input
so I am creating a silly word ;irate word interpreter page, and I need some logic behind how to add text to a textarea each time I click on a button. Each time the user clicks on the button, the value is inserted into the text area. You should be able to click on multiple buttons to add to the last text that appears. Then I have a delete translation button when I want to clear the textarea field. A good example would be if the user clicks on the button with the value "sir", than "matey" will appear in the textarea. Now, if the user clicks on the button with the value "your", then "yer" will come up after matey. It's like creating a sentence on your own, and then deleting it when your done.
Code: <body> <div id="page"> <div> <img style="float:left" src="slue.gif" width="205" height="190" alt=""> <div> <h1>Pirate Translator</h1> <p>Simply click on the buttons to translate words and/or phrases from English to pirate talk</p> </div> </div><br /> <hr /> <form name="pirate"> <div> <fieldset> <legend><b>Greetings:</b></legend> <input type="button" id="greeting" value="hello" /> <input type="button" id="greeting" value="pardon me" /> <input type="button" id="greeting" value="excuse me" /> <input type="button" id="greeting" value="" /> <input type="button" id="greeting" value="" /> <input type="button" id="greeting" value="" /> </fieldset> </div> <div> <fieldset> <legend><b>People:</b></legend> <input type="button" id="people" value="sir" /> <input type="button" id="people" value="madam" /> <input type="button" id="people" value="miss" /> <input type="button" id="people" value="stranger" /> <input type="button" id="people" value="officer" /> <input type="button" id="people" value="" /> <input type="button" id="people" value="" /> </fieldset> </div> <div> <fieldset> <legend><b>Questions:</b></legend> <input type="button" id="question" value="where is" /> <input type="button" id="question" value="can you help me" /> <input type="button" id="question" value="is that" /> <input type="button" id="question" value="how far is it to" /> <input type="button" id="question" value="" /> <input type="button" id="question" value="" /> <input type="button" id="question" value="" /> <input type="button" id="question" value="" /> </fieldset> </div> <div> <fieldset> <legend><b>Articles:</b></legend> <input type="button" id="article" value="the" /> <input type="button" id="article" value="my" /> <input type="button" id="article" value="your" /> <input type="button" id="article" value="" /> <input type="button" id="article" value="" /> <input type="button" id="article" value="" /> <input type="button" id="article" value="" /> </fieldset> </div> <div> <fieldset> <legend><b>Adjectives:</b></legend> <input type="button" id="adject" value="old" /> <input type="button" id="adject" value="attractiv" /> <input type="button" id="adject" value="happy" /> <input type="button" id="adject" value="" /> <input type="button" id="adject" value="" /> <input type="button" id="adject" value="" /> <input type="button" id="adject" value="" /> </fieldset> </div> <div> <fieldset> <legend><b>Places:</b></legend> <input type="button" id="places" value="restroom" /> <input type="button" id="places" value="restaurant" /> <input type="button" id="places" value="mall" /> <input type="button" id="places" value="hotel" /> <input type="button" id="places" value="pub" /> <input type="button" id="places" value="" /> <input type="button" id="places" value="" /> </fieldset> </div> <div> <fieldset> <legend><b>Desires:</b></legend> <input type="button" id="desire" value="I would like to" /> <input type="button" id="desire" value="I desire" /> <input type="button" id="desire" value="I wish I knew how to" /> <input type="button" id="desire" value="my mother told me to" /> <input type="button" id="desire" value="my campanion tells me to" /> <input type="button" id="desire" value="" /> <input type="button" id="desire" value="" /> </fieldset> </div> <div> <fieldset> <legend><b>Actions:</b></legend> <input type="button" id="action" value="find" /> <input type="button" id="action" value="take a nap" /> <input type="button" id="action" value="kill" /> <input type="button" id="action" value="hurt you" /> <input type="button" id="action" value="beat you up" /> <input type="button" id="action" value="go to the bathroom" /> <input type="button" id="action" value="" /> </fieldset> </div> <div> <p id="output"><textarea id="task_list" rows="5" cols="130"></textarea></p> <p id="output"><input type="button" id="" value="Delete Traslations" /></p> </div> </div> </form> <script src="js/translate.js"></script> </body> </html> Similar TutorialsHello there, I am having trouble with a javascript snippet that adds text to a textarea when you click on the link. Problem is that when you regularly type into the textarea, the links no longer add text. Here is the links: Code: <a href="javascript:insertText('<b></b> ','textIns');" onClick="void(0)">Bold</a>
Here is the javascript Code: <script type="text/javascript">
function insertText(val,e) {
document.getElementById(e).innerHTML+=val;
}
</script>
Any ideas or suggestions? I have a textarea with two buttons on it on the main page. When the user types into the textbox and hits the first button, a new window appears with the html language the user typed into the box. the other button closes the window. I cannot get the user's input to show up in the new window... Here is my code so far Code: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<form name = "form1">
<br>
Type your HTML code below:
<br>
<textarea name = "userInput" cols = "70" rows = "30"></textarea>
<br>
<input type = "button" value = "Preview" name = "preview" onclick = "write2new()">
<input type = "button" value = "Close Preview" name = "closePreview" onclick = "w.close()">
</form>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function write2new()
{
var t = document.form1.userInput.value;
var w = open("");
w.document.write(t);
w.document.close();
}
//-->
</script>
</body>
</html>
Hi, I am a beginner to javascript , I wish to learn how to create a .txt in local machine and store the data input in the textarea with the current data & time updated too. I am wondering is it possible to do so ? Please provide me a website or tutorial that I can learn about this. I tried to search it over the net but I just can't find a suitable tutorial for beginners like me. Thanks for the help. I appreaciate a lot. If I have post this thread in a wrong section, please kindly move it to a correct section as I can't find the suitable section to ask about this. I have an idea for a little script.....I'm just stuck on one little part: When a user changes the value in a input or textarea box, I want it to change the value of a certain hidden input tag too. Here's what I have so far: function getNewValue(inputhidden, textinput) { var data = document.getElementById(inputhidden); var text = document.getElementById(textinput); data.value = text.value; } <input type= "text" name= "name" id= "name" onChange="getNewValue('detail', 'name')"> <input type= "hidden" name= "detail" id="detail" value= ""> However, this is not working and I'm not sure why Hi i have a problem, i've been trying to fix this for the whole day pls see my code below Code: for ($o = 0; $o <= $totalclass; $o++)
{
for($i = 1; $i <= 45; $i++)
{
if ($_SESSION['classification'][$o] == $i)
{
$sql2="SELECT ClassDesc FROM tblclass WHERE ClassID = '$i'";
$result2=mysql_query($sql2);
// If successfully queried
if($result2)
{
while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($result2))
{
$ClassDesc2 = $row2['ClassDesc'];
}
}
//echo $ClassDesc2;
?>
<tr>
<td bgcolor="FAFAF6" class="small" valign="top">Class <? echo $i; ?></td>
<input type="hidden" name="<? echo "classid[]"; ?>" value="<? echo $i; ?>">
<td bgcolor="FAFAF6">
<textarea name="<? echo "specification[]"; ?>" COLS="50" ROWS="6" class="small" wrap="virtual" tabindex="<? echo $i; ?>"><? echo $ClassDesc2;?></textarea>
<input type="button" value="Reset" onclick="window.reset();" name="reset">
</td>
</tr>
<?
}
}
}
i've trying to create a button or image to reset one textarea (from whole array) and so far i've been unsuccessful. i've seen this on other website and i know it is possible to do this, pls help! I am thinking this should be fairly easy but yet I am not getting far. I want to have a form with a single text imput field for a zip code. Depending on which zip code the user enters will determine which url they will be sent to. If they enter a zip code which is not in the script, they would be sent to a default url. I am also assuming this can be accomplished with javascript. Any help is greatly appreciated. I have a problem with adding new inputs to a form (if and when required), Internet Explorer is fine but in Firefox if any previous input fields are filled when the more button is clicked they get reset to blank. JS: Code: fields = 0;
function addInput() {
if (fields != 100) {
document.getElementById('input').innerHTML += "<input type='text' name='input[]' size='30' />";
fields += 1;
} else {
document.getElementById('input').innerHTML += "<br />Maximum 100 fields allowed.";
document.form.add.disabled=true;}
}
form: Code: <form action="index.php" method="post"> <div id="input"> <input type="text" name="input[]" size="30" maxlength="15" /> </div> <!-- button --> <div id="more"> <input type="button" onclick="addInput()" name="add" value="More" /> </div> <!-- // button --> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> as usual any help is appretiated .. Hi, i want to set an input value to the same value as the input selected from another input on the same form so when the user selects input 1 i want the hidden input2 to get the same value im guessing i use onsubmit because its hidden so there wont be a focus or blur this would be part of the input Code: onsubmit="(this.value = this.othervalue)" othervalue being the other input name="othervalue" is that the correct syntax Hi all, I'm loading external xml and displaying specific tagged elements in a textarea. It works fine in IE because I can turn the variable object into text with a simple object.text property, but in Firefox (using the serializeToString method), the object appears in my textarea tags and all. The code looks something like this (this is just a dummy script - imagine the xml is already loaded into the object xmlDoc ): Code: function writePage(){
document.write('<textarea name="inputText">'+myText+'</textarea>');
}
function xmlIsLoaded(){
if(window.ActiveXObject){ //tests for IE
myText = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("desiredTag")[0].text;
} else { //tests for FF
myText = (new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("desiredTag")[0]);
}
writePage();
}
What am I missing here? I've tried toString, textContent, innerText, childNodes - just about everything I can think of to get just the text w/o the tags from the xml for the FF version. Any thoughts? ~gyz Hello there . Here is my simple code Quote: <html> <head> <script> function addText(){ document.getElementById("textarea").value+=document.getElementById("text").value+'\n'; document.getElementById("text").value=""; document.getElementById("text").onblur=document.getElementById("text").value=" Your Message..."; } </script> <style> #textarea{background-color:#F3F3F3; } </style> </head> <body> <form> <TEXTAREA id="textarea" COLS="80" ROWS="20" ></TEXTAREA><br/><br/> <input type="text" id="text" name="text" value=" Your Message..." onclick="this.value=''" size="96"> <input type="button" value="Send" name="submit" onclick="addText()"> </form> </body> </html> My problem is I dont know what to do iorder to make my send button to push the text entered in the text field from bottom to the top (not from the top to the bottom) I found a script that is perfect for my need but it is written for forms textareas and I can seem to get it to work textareas that are not wrapped in form. Code: Code: <script>function insertAtCursor(sTag,eTag)
{
var obj = document.form.message;
var strPos;
var ie_strPos;
var oSel;
obj.focus();
strPos += sTag.length + eTag.length;
ie_strPos += sTag.length + eTag.length;
if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) { // Internet Explorer
oSel = document.selection.createRange();
if (oSel.parentElement() == obj) {
oSel.text = sTag + oSel.text + eTag;
ie_strPos += oSel.text.length;
}
oSel.moveStart ('character', ie_strPos);
oSel.moveEnd ('character', 0);
oSel.select ();
}
else if (typeof(obj) != "undefined") { // Firefox
var longueur = parseInt(obj.value.length);
var selStart = obj.selectionStart;
var selEnd = obj.selectionEnd;
obj.value = obj.value.substring(0,selStart) + sTag + obj.value.substring(selStart,selEnd) + eTag + obj.value.substring(selEnd,longueur);
strPos += txtarea.value.substring(selStart,selEnd).length;
obj.selectionStart = strPos;
obj.selectionEnd = strPos;
obj.focus ();
}
else obj.value += sTag + eTag;
obj.focus();
} </script>
<button onclick="insertAtCursor('[blah]','[/blah]')">Test</button>
<form method="post" name="form" action="">
<textarea name="message" cols="50" rows="10"></textarea>
</form>
My textarea: Code: <textarea id="new_topic_text" class="new-topic-subject-text elastic" style="overflow: hidden;"></textarea> I'm adding text into a text area using document.createTextNode Code: document.getElementById('controlQueueDump').appendChild(document.createTextNode(args+';'));
But whenever the user edits the text box, it will never update anything again. I can add as much as I want, but when a user edits it (for example removes the contents), BAM, it is no longer updated. it's a textarea so it should be appending the child to the value attribute. Thanks a lot. Hi all. I have a textfield on my form problem. My boss wants it as a textfield to keep the field small on the page but still wants to be able to read all of the information that is in the field. What can I do with this?? Can we have change to textarea when he hovers to clicks in it. Any help would be appreciated. I'm making this expanabel textarea which works fine, but... If I set a predefined numbers of rows, when start typing it jumps back (schrinks) into 2 rows... How do I avoid this? Code: <script>
function checkRows(textArea){
if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft Internet Explorer") == 0)
{
textArea.style.overflow = 'visible';
return;
}
while (
textArea.rows > 4 &&
textArea.scrollHeight < textArea.offsetHeight
){
textArea.rows--;
}
while (textArea.scrollHeight > textArea.offsetHeight)
{
textArea.rows++;
}
return;
}
</script>
<textarea style="overflow:hidden;" onkeyup="checkRows(this)" rows="4">Some Test Text</textarea>
Thanks in advance:-) hi i am new to javascript. i want to make a form where a textarea, some buttons like bold,italic,link etc will be availablw. when user selecet some text from textarea and click bold button then one openig and closing tag will be added like this [sb]abc[/sb] how can i do this using javascript. any idea? pls. help I am fairly new at Javascript, but there is something happening I do not understand. Please someone explain it to me and help with a solution. In the function, I pull data from an URL and I have done this with several different data fields and populate the HTML input, option, and check boxes with no problem with the following method. Code: document.getElementById("othertxt").value=strValue;
document.getElementById("radsig").checked=true;
document.getElementById("eventtime").value=strValue;
But for some reason this method for textarea does not work and I know that there is a value in strValue because check it right before the line of code. Code: document.getElementById("othertxt").value=strValue;
Is textarea just treated differently? I have searched the internet and seen examples but for some reason I can not find the correct solution. I can write all kinds of stuff, but one thing is failing me, and is extremely frustrating. document.getElementById('fakeid').value; which is my least preferred option, won't even work on this text area. Either will: Code: var objElem = document.getElementById(strId);
var objElem = objElem.getElementsByTagName('textarea');
var strComment = objElem[0].value;
It will work fine in IE but will not in Firefox. I cannot understand why as I've done this many times before. The code it is using is: Code: <div id="commentAdd"><h3 id="commentHeader"><a href="javascript:;" onclick="func_toggle_visibility("commentAddContent");return false;">Add a comment</a></h3> <div class="contentnopadding" id="commentAddContent" style="display:block;"> <form id="formCommentAdd"> <div class="comleft"> <table> <tr><td><span class="subhead">Add Comment:</span></td><td><textarea id="fakeid" rows="3" cols="35"></textarea></td></tr> </table> </div> <div class="content"> <input id="commentAddSubmit" type="button" value="Submit Comment" onclick="commentInitAjax(this.id,'comment','1',false);"> </div> </form></div></div><br><br> <div class="contentnopadding"></div> hitting submit triggers that function (which i haven't pasted all of it, just the necessary parts). I have an alert right after where i assign the value, but it does not work in FF. Please help, it's giving me grief (if it helps, the HTML is written by javascript, but i can't see how it would have any effect). on html i named my textarea as features, is the code below correct cause is does not validate. if (document.forms.myform.features.value == "") Hey all, I have a script that limit characters and lines entered by users in a textarea.. i want instead of throwing that alert message to jump to the next line and the user can continue writing, here is the script: Code: <script type="text/javascript">
var alert_title='Input Restriction';
function limitTextarea(el,maxLines,maxChar){
if(!el.x)
{
el.x=uniqueInt();
el.onblur=function(){clearInterval(window['int'+el.x])}
}
window['int'+el.x]=setInterval(function(){
var lines=el.value.replace(/\r/g,'').split('\n'),
i=lines.length,
lines_removed,
char_removed;
if(maxLines&&i>maxLines){
alert('You can not enter\nmore than '+maxLines+' lines');
lines=lines.slice(0,maxLines);
lines_removed=1
}
if(maxChar){
i=lines.length;
while(i-->0)if(lines[i].length>maxChar){
lines[i]=lines[i].slice(0,maxChar);
char_removed=1
}
if(char_removed)
alert('You can not enter more\nthan '+maxChar+' characters per line')
}
if(char_removed||lines_removed)
el.value=lines.join('\n')
},50);
}
function uniqueInt(){
var num,maxNum=100000;
if(!uniqueInt.a||maxNum<=uniqueInt.a.length)uniqueInt.a=[];
do num=Math.ceil(Math.random()*maxNum);
while(uniqueInt.a.hasMember(num))
uniqueInt.a[uniqueInt.a.length]=num;
return num
}
Array.prototype.hasMember=function(testItem){
var i=this.length;
while(i-->0)if(testItem==this[i])return 1;
return 0
};
</script>
The HTML Code: <textarea onFocus="limitTextarea(this,5,40)" wrap="soft"></textarea> please help! Hey everyone....I just started learning how to use Javascript and I have a problem.... I have an exercise in which I have to validate a form and write the info of all the fields in a textarea by pressing the submit button.....and I just can't do it. Code: <html>
<head>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
var radio_selection="";
function ValMode(){
Empty(myForm.name);
Empty(myForm.addr);
Empty(myForm.city);
Empty(myForm.mail);
radioButtons();
Empty2(myForm.multi);
return false;
}
function Empty(x){
if ((x.value.length==0)||(x.value==null)){
alert("Empty field");}
}
function Empty2(x){
if ((x.value==null)){
alert("Select an option");
}
}
function radioButtons() {
if (radio_selection=="")
alert("\nYou must check one of the radio buttons.");
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<big><b>Example Form</b></big><br><br>
<b>The form</b><br>
<form name="myForm" onsubmit= "return ValMode();" >
Name <input type="text" name="name" size=30><br>
Address <input type="text" name="addr" size=30><br>
City <input type="text" name="city" size=30><br>
E-mail <input type="text" name="mail" size=30><br>
Room Type<br>
<input type="radio" name="personnumb" onClick="radio_selection='One person'">For One person<br>
<input type="radio" name="personnumb" onClick="radio_selection='For Two'">For Two<br>
<input type="radio" name="personnumb" onClick="radio_selection='For three'">For three<br>
<input type="radio" name="personnumb" onClick="radio_selection='Family suite'">Family suite<br>
How did you learn about us?<select name="mutli">
<option selected value="">--Select--
<option>From friend
<option>By chance
<option>Search engine
<option>Advertisement
</select><br>
I'd like additional service as: <br>
<input type="checkbox" name="veg">Vegetarian<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="hand">Handicap<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="allerg">Allergic to various substances<br>
<input type="checkbox" name="pet">Pet owner<br>
<input type="submit" value="submit form"><br>
<input type="reset" value="reset"><br>
<textarea cols=30 rows=10 id="textarea" name="textarea" >When you hit 'Submit' the user input will be written to htis textarea.</textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>
Here is my code.I left out my sorry efforts of influencing the textarea. Any suggestions? |
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